how to dual boot? (was Re: adding boostrap code to boot system)

2006-03-04 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
(I changed subject line in the attempt to get more interest :) On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: set currdev=disk0s4a unload boot /kernel -s Danke. This worked fine. Strange. But it only works for me when I use the -s. I have tried setting currdev and rootdev. And

Re: how to dual boot? (was Re: adding boostrap code to boot system)

2006-03-04 Thread walt
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: (I changed subject line in the attempt to get more interest :) On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: set currdev=disk0s4a unload boot /kernel -s Danke. This worked fine. Strange. But it only works for me when I use the -s. I have tried setting

Re: how to dual boot? (was Re: adding boostrap code to boot system)

2006-03-04 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Sascha Wildner wrote: Can someone please tell me how to get DragonFly to boot? And how can I get a boot selector? The boot manager is installed with 'boot0cfg -B'. Okay. I thought I had tried that, but now I see I used that switch with fdisk and disklabel but used

Re: how to dual boot? (was Re: adding boostrap code to boot system)

2006-03-04 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: But F4 just beeps (like when pressing invalid F5). So I booted with the LiveCD again, created the ad0s4a device node, and ran: disklabel -B /dev/ad0s4a Rebooting still didn't fix the F4. Sometimes packet mode helps, see boot0cfg(8) man page. # boot0cfg -B -o

Re: how to dual boot? (was Re: adding boostrap code to boot system)

2006-03-04 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
walt wrote: but I recall that trying to set the rootdev gives me an error message in both DFly and FreeBSD. I tried again. I booted with LiveCD. Chose 6 for loader. Typed show at the OK prompt. It listed my variables like: currdev=cd0: loaddev=cd0: But no rootdev. I typed: set