From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 6 16:36:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646DF37B423 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 16:36:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 09E43A93D; Sun, 6 May 2001 18:35:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:35:47 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: dave Cc: Darren Wyn Rees , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rem*ve bootloader Message-ID: <20010506183547.A68385@cec.wustl.edu> References: <200105062324.QAA29047@avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105062324.QAA29047@avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net>; from dleimbac@earthlink.net on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 06:26:21PM -0500 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 06:26:21PM -0500, dave wrote: > > > Get GRUB! > > GRand Unified Bootloader... > > Its the best one I've seen/used. > > Dave GRUB... last I used it, it wouldn't boot Linux 2.4 særies kernels unless you specified a menu... sort of defeating the purpose of having the prompt. GRUB is just a clone of the FreeBSD boot loader, really. It's the same multi-stage concept, with a prompt... the only thing it adds is native support for more filesystems. After what GNU fdisk and parted did to my system, I will never, ever let a GNU product stay resident in my master boot record again. I would put the FreeBSD boot loader in the MBR, and LILO or GRUB on the linux slice. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message