Re: Help autobooting FreeBSD 4.2

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Goran Koruga <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Help autobooting FreeBSD 4.2
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:11:22 +0100

> I had the same problem with my HP Vectra. Use 'd' option in install command,
> as follows :
> 
> install stage1_location d destination_device stage2_location 0x8000 p
> 
> Note that this is just an example, you may need other options or you may
> want to discard some of these (in particular 0x8000 and p are usually not
> needed I think).

  You are right, but you shouldn't use the command "install" directly,
unless you need to do something tricky. The command "setup" installs
GRUB in a reasonably clever way. I might remove "install" in the
future, because that is too dangerous, and some users continue to use
"install" instead of "setup", even when this suffices, as long as that
exists. That's an example where backward compatibility is evil.

Okuji