On 05-Mar-2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Last weekend I had to reinstall Windows XP on my PC and certainly I lost > boot manager. After booting from CD and mounting as root ad0 device, I > replaced boot0 record > using the following command line : > ># boot0cfg -Bv -s 1 -t 91 ad0 > > On my PC I have 14G Windows XP partition(primary partition), 7G Linux (2 > extended partitions) and 7G FreeBSD 5.0 - Current (primary partition). On > second disk I have Windows 98. > > After installing I see something like this : > > F1 - ??? > F3 - FreeBSD > F5 - Disk 2 > > It is strange that only F1 works (start Windows XP), while F3 play some > sound. Pressing F5 starts Windows XP, but it could be because Windows on > my second disk. > > Yes I know that there are other boot managers like GRUB, but it is another > beer.
You need to turn on 'packet' mode by hand. # boot0cfg -o packet ad0 should do the trick. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message