From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 21 13:50:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19559 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:50:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA19490 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:50:11 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01484; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804212046.NAA01484@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Jay Bratcher cc: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:19:31 CDT." <353CFF53.F02CBEC@netjava.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:46:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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