Re: Help autobooting FreeBSD 4.2

[Daniel Pittman]

OKUJI Yoshinori <address@hidden> writes:
>
> 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.

I hope that there will be a way to achieve the same results as
"install", though. It's been very helpful for me.

When I last installed GRUB (0.5.96.1), "setup" wouldn't put the path I
wanted for my 'menu.lst' file in automatically. (I want /grub/menu.lst).

So, without "install" I wouldn't have been very happy with GRUB. With it
I was able to get what I wanted.

I would (as a user) like to see the functionality kept even if the
command changes some.

        Daniel

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