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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using BootMAgic and FreeUSD Post 6427 by escozooz on Tuesday 4th of September 2001 08:20:01 PM
Old 09-04-2001
Using BootMAgic and FreeUSD

I installed FreeBSD 4.3 today. I downloaded the ISO from the freeBSD.org and burned it. I got through the installation and opted not to install the BootManager.

I have BootMagic already and want to use it.

When I restart my computer I just end up starting Windows.
I went into BootMagic's config and added FreeBSD as an OS with no problem. I want to leave Windows as my default.

I dont know how BootMagic works but I assumed that it would give me some dialog to choose what OS I wanted to boot when I restarted my computer.

I was wrong.

Does anyone know how to make it so BootMagic works and lets me boot either OS.

And what is a full-proof way to start up FreeBSD, I only have the CD.

Please help I really want to get past all the details so I can start using UNIx. Thanks.
escozooz
 
mkcd(1M)						  System Administration Commands						  mkcd(1M)

NAME
mkcd - create bootable Solaris ISO image SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/mkcd -v [-l label] media-root iso DESCRIPTION
The mkcd utility takes media-root (the root of an on-disk Solaris install media) as input and creates a bootable Solaris ISO image in the file iso, using mkisofs(8). The file can then be burned onto a CD/DVD with utilities such as cdrw(1) or cdrecord(1). (Neither mkisofs(8) nor cdrecord(1) are SunOS man pages.) Caution - The directory tree media-root must contain the file boot/grub/stage2_eltorito, which will be written to the media boot sectors. This file will be modified with some boot information, thus it must be writable. If necessary, first save a copy prior to running this utility. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -l label Sets label as the label/volume name of the ISO image. -v Verbose. Multiple -v options increase verbosity. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: media-root Top-level directory of an on-disk Solaris install media. iso Name of the output file which will contain the resulting ISO image. EXAMPLES
Example 1 Creating an ISO Image and Burning a CD/DVD The following commands create an ISO image from the content of s10u1 and burn the image to a CD/DVD. # /usr/bin/mkcd s10u1 s10u1.iso # /usr/bin/cdrw -i s10u1.iso ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cdrw(1), attributes(5) mkisofs(8), (/usr/share/man/man8/mkisofs.8), in the SUNWfsman package (not a SunOS man page) SunOS 5.11 25 Jul 2008 mkcd(1M)
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