On 05-Mar-2003 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 03:26, John Baldwin wrote: >> > 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. > > Do you think this should be the default? > > ie would it fix more things than it breaks? > > My feeling is yes... > Or is sysinstall supposed to set the flags based on where you install > stuff? > (I had a quick look but couldn't see anything to indicate this was so)
sysinstall sets the flag for you during the install. I originally wrote a version of boot0 that was smart enough to use packet mode automatically when needed, but it got backed out. -- 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
