Re: Net BSD BOOT from Early Boot Menu

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%beverly.kleinbus.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:52:31PM +0100, Mdm Informatica wrote:
> I tell the installer to install the bootblock on the ROOT.
> But at reboot the Early startup menu not showed ROOT partition.
> The Install doc also tell me that this feature not work on some system.
> 
> Therefore i started again HDToolBox and i have installed bffs file system on
> the RDB with ROOT dostype 0x4e425207... and miracle this work very well... i
> can boot directly from early startup menu from ROOT partitions... umn... the
> only drawback is that ROOT partition is mounted also on the Amiga site and
> showed on the workbench screen.

Hm, thats because you've set the "automount" flag, which is needed with
some hdtoolbox etc. versions to set the amount of boot block code.

It might even work when you deinstall bffs, and reset the automount flag.
(or only reset the automountflag).

        -is