From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 19 15:23:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02221 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:23:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02165 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA11960; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:23:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:23:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "John H. Barbee" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot from mbr vs other partition In-Reply-To: <9805182202.AA18748@pom-unix1.pomona.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 May 1998, John H. Barbee wrote: > Is it recommended to boot from MBR or from a DOS partition instead and > not install boot managers? You can do it if you want. I personally like using the boot manager since it'll auto-reboot the system. > I'm planning on running NT with FreeBSD You can program the NT bootmanager to boot FreeBSD if it's on the same disk. See the FAQ. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message