How to boot after a Freebsd 5.3 install

Tue Dec 28 09:44:10 PST 2004

As Yann CUEFF wrote:

> Nowhere like an install on i386 i've seen an item to install a boot
> manager.

The Openboot PROM (OBP) is boot manager enough.

> After exist sysinstall i tried to boot with the OBP of my ultra5 
> workstation on the a partition and i doesn't work.

Where did you install it?  How did you partition your disk(s)?

If not customized, OBP tries to boot off partition `a' of the first
disk (IDE disk on the U5/10).

What ``does not work''?  (IOW: what happens?)
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J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch at interface-systems.de        http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/