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.
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Robert Nordier
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