====== Frenzy Boot ======

First of all you will see the boot loader menu:

{{:mypic:frenzy-loadermenu.png?360x200|Boot menu}}

In most cases it is enough to press Enter or to wait 5 seconds.

:!: In case of kernel boot errors, wich lead to no bootup, 
use the button 2 in boot menu - "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled".

===== Boot options =====

When the kernel is loaded you will see Frenzy menu:

{{:mypic:frenzy-bootmenu.png?360x200|Frenzy boot menu}}

Available options:

**lang** - choose language. The system lang parameters depend on this option.

**ramdisk** - set the memory disks sizes for /etc, /var, /root, /mnt.  \\
:!: It is recomended to stick to 10-50 MB.

**toram** - full memory load mode, CD-ROM is not needed in this case and can be removed from drive. \\
:!: There must be like 1GB RAM for this mode to work, there are also some problems about this mode still.

**fromhdd** - boot from compressed image on a hard drive, CD-ROM also releases. The image frenzy.uzip must be in frenzy directory of any harddrive.

**nohdd** - Do not search and mount HDD partitions. Is this option is set - **fromhdd** would be ignored.

**nohdmnt** - the partitions search is made, fstab is renewed and mount points are made. No mounts are done. Is this option is set - **fromhdd** would be ignored.

**hdrw** -  mount partitions in RW mode (writing is supported for UFS1/2, EXT2FS и FAT filesystems, NTFS и REISERFS would be mounted as read-only)

**nobackup** - Do not automaticly restore settings from diskette, hdd or USB Flash backups.

**hwinfo** - the hwinfo utility would be run, it will generate HTML-file with a hardware list.

**gui** - automatically start Graphic Shell.

===== Logging in =====

After the boot, the first console will automaticly log you in as root. On the other consoles you should use login **root**, password is not required.