Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:12:21 -0500 (EST) From: Wes Morgan <morganw@engr.sc.edu> To: Vladik <pvlad@bigfoot.com> Cc: Charles Anderson <caa@columbus.rr.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003310111170.645-100000@volatile.by-tor.tacorp.net> In-Reply-To: <38E3DC98.3793ADDA@bigfoot.com>
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Little tip for would-be grub users... I had to play with the compiler
flags quite a bit to get a bootable image. I suggest taking the flags used
to compile the FreeBSD boot loaders and using them.
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Vladik wrote:
> 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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