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 different options with boot0cfg. (Without the -B I was getting "unknown or incompatible boot code" each time.) That did give me a boot menu, with: F1 BSD F2 ?? F3 DF/FBSD F4 DF/FBSD F2 has no operating system. And F1 boots NetBSD and F3 boots FreeBSD fine -- thanks! 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. Can someone please summarize the disklabel, fdisk and boot0cfg options (maybe with some examples) specifically for making a system bootable and also for a multi-boot menu? And is there a certain order these things are supposed to be done in? Once I get this figured out, I will make sure this is clearly documented in the online DragonFly book. Jeremy C. Reed p.s. I had installed on the laptop using the latest official LiveCD. The system already had NetBSD and FreeBSD. I chose not to install the boot manager in the DragonFly installer since I didn't want to lose access to easily booting to the other systems. I was hoping that the boot menu would work immediately.