Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:46:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jay Bratcher <jayb@netjava.com> Cc: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows Message-ID: <199804212046.NAA01484@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:19:31 CDT." <353CFF53.F02CBEC@netjava.com>
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> Seriously though, by flexible, I meant more options. Anyway, I can > definitely get in over my head arguing about boot managers, so I won't > do it. I only meant to point out that lilo would be a good alternative > to booteasy if it could be ported. ... except that BootEasy and Lilo do completely different things. Booteasy lets you select a partition from which to load an operating system bootstrap. Lilo is an operating system bootstrap. The FreeBSD bootstrap doesn't have a cute name; it's called 'boot', or sometimes boot1/boot2. There is very little that Lilo does that boot doesn't. On the other hand, boot understands how the BSD filesystem works, so you can boot any kernel that you want, without having to screw around with it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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