Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 08:58:17 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: joelh@gnu.org, rnordier@nordier.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199812050658.IAA10277@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <199812042345.PAA00709@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 4, 98 03:45:55 pm"
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > Regarding nextboot, I can't get your question into any kind of > > > context, sorry. Is this just an entirely separate issue, or > > > does "still works" relate to using FBSDBOOT versus not using > > > FBSDBOOT in some way? > > > > This is a related but separate issue. > ... > Now, one way to write this program immediately suggests itself to me. > > Rewrite nextboot for Windows and put a GUI on it. Hence, my > > question. I don't know any other way to talk to the boot manager, > > although I'm open to suggestions. > > The problem is that it's not a related issue; nextboot doesn't have > anything to do with what you're discussing - it's an outdated way to > talk to the old bootstrap code in order to pass arguments to the 'boot:' > prompt. It doesn't have any effect on the active partition. You're going off half-cocked here, Mike. The issue we're discussing is completely one of passing arguments to the boot prompt and, as I'd *already* mentioned to Joel, his idea is probably the best way of getting this info out of Windows and into BSD. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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