From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 26 15:25:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113EB37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:25:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com (msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com [192.25.240.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DCA43F93 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:25:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from relcos1.cos.agilent.com (relcos1.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.239]) by msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84B5132A; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:25:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by relcos1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2A44FF; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:25:17 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_25184)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id PAA11580; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:25:17 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200302262325.PAA11580@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell) Cc: Andrew Boothman , Matt Smith , Lucas Holt , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:07:42 PST." <15965.7822.181074.204822@rosebud.alerce.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.7) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:25:16 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell) wrote: > Only differences are which partition we mark active and what boot > loader lives there. True, but that's the key point: "... and what boot loader lives there." There are times when not touching the boot loader is desirable. While GRUB, booteasy, and others are quite perfectly usable for many people, some of us may be better off with an untouched MBR. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message