From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Dec 5 11: 6:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28D237B401; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:06:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D3A43EBE; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:06:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (rnordier@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB5J69x3098729; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:06:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB5J65m5098728; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:06:05 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <200212051906.gB5J65m5098728@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BootMgr vs. boot0 vs. BootEasy In-Reply-To: from Chris Pepper at "Dec 2, 2002 11:35:53 pm" To: pepper@reppep.com (Chris Pepper) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:06:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, rnordier@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Pepper wrote: > What is the proper name of the boot manager installed by > sysinstall 4.6/4.7? sysinstall's menu calls it BootMgr, boot0cfg.8 > calls it boot0, and I've recently come across several references, > including sysinstall's help (/usr/src/release/sysinstall/disks.c) > that appear to call it booteasy. > > >/usr/src/release/sysinstall/menus.c: { { "BootMgr", "Install the > >FreeBSD Boot Manager", > > I'd like to reconcile the refs, but I'm not sure what's proper. References to "booteasy" are outdated: booteasy was replaced by boot0. I think "BootMgr" is just a sysinstall abbreviation for "The FreeBSD Boot Manager" and is in line with other sysinstall usages, like "Keymap" and "Fixit". So "boot0" is its name and "The FreeBSD Boot Manager" is its role. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com // Le monde est plein de fous, et qui n'en veut pas voir rnordier@FreeBSD.org // Doit se tenir tout seul, et casser son miroir. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message