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From: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Bypassing boot options screen in FreeBSD
Date: 19 Jul 1994 10:11:53 -0400
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote:
: It will boot w/out the user having to hit the enter key after a short
: time-out period. However, if you don't want to give the user the
: option to change kernels (which could affect you if someone goes hog-wild
: with fdisk on the drive) you can modify the bootblocks and remove the
: timeout code in it. I did that in an X-terminal lab and it works quite
: well. (But I keep a floppy that I can boot off of just in case something
: gets really weirded out).
Ok, here's a related question. MS-DOG occupies wd0, and FreeBSD
occupies wd1. To handle booting from either drive, I installed the
booteasy or whatever it's called that's available in the tools/msdos
directory on ftp.cdrom.com (not os-bs, the other one) It allows me to
boot off of the second one just fine, but the default kernel to boot is
wd(0,a), when I want it to be wd(1,a). Is there a way to change this so
I don't have to type wd(1,a) every time?
Jeff
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Jeff Aitken jaitken@vt.edu
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