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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to recover BSD Boot Manager
Date: 18 Oct 1995 09:01:03 +0100
Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
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References: <45vunn$77p@bilbo.nask.org.pl> <f92fccdc&m0t5B29-00070DN@glas.apc.org>
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In article <f92fccdc&m0t5B29-00070DN@glas.apc.org>, vega@glasnet.ru writes:
|> > Simple question: how to install BSD Boot Manager, my friend did fdisk /mbr
|> > under his DOS Partition sheeesh.
|>
|> I'm afraid nobody know how to. I've posted a couple times the similar ad,
|> but didn't get any answer. ;(
|>
|> There is only very radical method to reinstall the system or boot BSD
|> from loaded MS-DOS.
|>
|> Any suggestions?
Well - I have an easier problem: I have 2.0.5R up and running with / on wd0s2a
and I'd like to get / onto sd0s2a. I hae some sort of boot manager somewhere
on wd0 that is toggled by F1...F5 and F5 claims it is going to select the
second drive (i.e. sd0). Unfortunately, that doesn't do the trick and the
system just hangs. Now, booting wd0s2a/kernel -r ("root on sd0") will do the
desired thing, and also (at wd0s2 boot prompt) booting hd(1,a)/kernel works.
Is there any way I can set up the sd0 such that by simple keystrokes on
F1...F5 I can select which disk to boot off ?
BTW I'd be perfectly happy to give all of sd0 to FreeBSD if that helps.
Thanks,
Bernard