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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:00:40 -0500
From:      Vladik <pvlad@bigfoot.com>
To:        Charles Anderson <caa@columbus.rr.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader
Message-ID:  <38E3DC98.3793ADDA@bigfoot.com>
References:  <87n1njbrfj.fsf@nakaji.tutrp.tut.ac.jp> <20000328150723.A28294@midgard.dhs.org> <38E265D3.279D4F0A@bigfoot.com> <20000330104045.A1509@midgard.dhs.org>

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Hi, for now I am doing this every time (but I also do not
reboot too often).
GRUB has a curses-like based menu thing where you
can specify what to boot and how.  You have to
set the config file during the compilation. And then
compile, and then build the floppy with that or install
on to the MBR. And I have not done that yet.

--
Vladislav

Charles Anderson wrote:
> 
> Do you do this everytime or just to get things started?
> 
> If it's everytime, man that's a pain, if it's just to get things
> started it's easier than what I did.  (but now I get a list of what I
> want to boot from the NT bootloader, and I just hit the arrow down to
> FreeBSD and go.)
> 
> -Charlie
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Vladik wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am not sure if this exactly on topic,
> > but this is how I boot freeBSD partition that is installed
> > beyond cyl 1024
> >
> >
> > I use GRUB boot loader that understands LBA (www.gnu.org/grub)
> >
> > Once GRUB boots from a floppy, go to GRUB's command prompt and
> > do the following:
> >
> > root (hd0,3,a)   # or whatever your FreeBSD root slice is
> > #after the command above, it mounted the partition
> >
> > kernel /kernel -remount
> > boot
> >
> > When kernel boots to the point where it needs to mount a root
> > partion it will ask you,
> > in there you type
> > ufs:/dev/ad0s4a
> >
> >
> > ----
> > Vladislav
> 
> --
> Charles Anderson        caa@columbus.rr.com
> 
> No quote, no nothin'


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