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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-regensburg.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!schweikh From: schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: How to change defaults of the boot floppy? Date: 8 Dec 1995 10:11:10 GMT Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4a92vu$2lq2@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de Hello, I still use the boot floppy to boot a kernel from my second SCSI hard disk. So I have to enter 'hd(1,a)/kernel' at the boot prompt each time I boot, which is somewhat annoying. I'd like to change the default of fd(0,a)/kernel to the above. is this possible, maybe by frobbing some bytes on the boot floppy? Just tell me an offset and what to write there. Thanks a bunch, Jens PS: No, I don't want to install some nifty boot manager right now, as I have linux running on the first drive which is bootable; and the lilo boot manager, which for some reason would not boot FreeBSD, even when configured as a chain boot loader. And yes, when installing FreeBSD 2.1.0 I chose 'compatibility with other OSes regarding boot process' that made a one cylinder partition unused by FreeBSD. -- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)