On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 06:07:36PM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > ... > > You know you can use Grub to boot FreeBSD, right? Including multiple > > installations on multiple disks / slices. > > Thank you Dag-Erling! Somehow I did not consider GRUB. I'm now using the > following menu.lst which gives me *exactly* what I wanted. >... > > I'm using the FreeBSD boot loader; hitting F[1-5] when the FreeBSD boot > > loader prompts does the usual disk & slice selection, though I only use > > that ability when I've forgotten to set the next boot slice via > > boot0cfg(8). > > Are you doing this via keyboard or serial line? Is it possible to get > that F1-F5 output via serial *without* BIOS support?? I'm just curious, > although I found a pretty decent solution, thanks to Dag-Erling. I hardly ever have a keyboard (or monitor) attached to the machine in question. I do the same thing for a couple of other machines here at home, and I did it with the desktop I used at my previous employer's, but I don't now recall if the FreEBSD boot loader prompts show up on the machines that lack BIOS serial redirection: it hasn't been an issue for me, because I use boot0cfg(8) to (pre-)select the boot slice. (I can't easily test this at the moment, because those other 2 FreeSBD machines here at home are currently in productive use (as a firewall & as a mail hub, respectively), and the only other FreeBSD machine I have at hand is my laptop, for which disconnecting the keyboard involves rather invasive surgery. And I probably shouldn't try to login to the desktop at my previous employer's to reboot it.... :-}) If grub works for you, that's great. I tried it about 2.5 years ago, and found it incredibly frustrating, since I didn't see a convenient way to select the boot slice via a simple scriptable command-line facility (without going to the hassle of writing something to parse its config file), while I could merely use boot0cfg(8) with the FreeBSD boot loader. (I didn't try exceptionally hard, though, for various off-topic reasons.) Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david_at_catwhisker.org I submit that "conspiracy" would be an appropriate collective noun for cats. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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