Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader

2000-03-30 Thread Vladik
bootloader, and I just hit the arrow down to FreeBSD and go.) -Charlie On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Vladik wrote: Hello, I am not sure if this exactly on topic, but this is how I boot freeBSD partition that is installed beyond cyl 1024 I use GRUB boot loader

Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader

2000-03-29 Thread Vladik
Hello, I am not sure if this exactly on topic, but this is how I boot freeBSD partition that is installed beyond cyl 1024 I use GRUB boot loader that understands LBA (www.gnu.org/grub) Once GRUB boots from a floppy, go to GRUB's command prompt and do the following: root (hd0,3,a) # or

[Q]4.0-Release file system

2000-03-23 Thread Vladik
Hello, My FreeBSD partition is installed on a cyl. beyound 1024. So FreeBSD boot manager does not work. Howerver with 3.4 release I was able to use this great boot loader called GRUB. In there I could mount a root file system and then load the kernel. Something has changed in the 4.0 Release