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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot loaders?
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You can configure "booteasy" with boot0cfg.  See how easy that is?  :-)

On Friday 25 January 2002 03:24 pm, scott worley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just moved my main workstation from linux to FreeBSD 4.5RC2.  I was
> comfortable using GRUB on linux but I haven't found good documention on
> configuring the FreeBSD boot loaders.
>
> From the docs freebsd installs something called booteasy which isn't
> configurable?
>
> There are hints of a highly configurable boot loader for freebsd in the
> docs plus I see files in /boot which have options in them.  Where are
> examples on how it?
>
> Most of the docs I've found on the web are about using LILO or NT's boot
> loader.
>
> I can always install the port of grub but it doens't like netbsd which I'm
> going to load on the same machine.
>
> Current setup is:
> /dev/da0s1 freebsd 4.5 slice(whole disk)
> /dev/da1s1 linux swap
> /dev/da1s2 linux /boot (set bootable)
> /dev/da1s3 linux /
> /dev/da1s4 empty, future netbsd
>
> the partitions on da1 were created after freebsd was installed so booteasy
> gives me: F1 FreeBSD
> F5 disk1
>
> disklabel /dev/da1 spits out all the scsi drive info and
> c: 17783240 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1106*)
>
> Do freebsd boot manager(s) require disklabels on all disks?
>
> thanks,
> scott
> folokai@earthlink.net
>
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