Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 06:15:25 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1016453725.806f98@mired.org> To: Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended partition Message-ID: <15503.17117.87903.17181@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020313113309.A3437@bsag.ch> References: <20020313113309.A3437@bsag.ch>
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Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> types: > one advantage of Booteasy is that it keeps the last selected choice > as the default for the next boot process. I haven't found such a > feature neither in Lilo nor in Grub. > > But is it possible with Booteasy to chain to a Lilo or other > bootmanager in the extended partition? > > Or is there a good alternate bootmanager that has both features? Grub doesn't make the last selected choice the default by default; you have to do it in the boot entry in the menu with the "savedefault" command. That will make the entry currently booting the default entry next time you boot. I.e., mine looks like: title FreeBSD-stable savedefault root (hd0,1,a) makeactive kernel /boot/loader title FreeBSD-current savedefault root (hd0,3,a) makeactive kernel /boot/loader title TurboLinux savedefault root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 If I boot to Linux or FreeBSD, it makes that the default next time. If I boot from floppy, it doesn't - which behavior I much prefer. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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