Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Mike Smith wrote:
> > boot0 is the module that gives you the F? prompt > > What F? prompt??? The boot manager menu, for example F1 FreeBSD F2 UNIX F5 Drive 1 Default: F1 > > boot1 is invisible, it just loads boot2 > > boot2 spins the | to begin with, and if you hit a key while it's paused, > > you get it's prompt 'boot:', it starts the loader. > > Thanks. I have a clearer idea of it now. In which part of the disk > each one of these resides? boot0 occupies the master boot record (sector 0 of the disk). Only sliced disks (not "dangerously dedicated") have a proper mbr. boot1 and boot2 occupy the boot blocks (the first 8K sectors of a ufs partition) with the default being the 'a' partition. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message