From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 21 16:18:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18174 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:18:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tweetie.online.barbour-index.co.uk (tweetie-pipex.online.barbour-index.co.uk [194.129.192.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18116 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 23:17:52 GMT (envelope-from scot@online.barbour-index.co.uk) Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by tweetie.online.barbour-index.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA13999 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:17:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scot@online.barbour-index.co.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: tweetie.online.barbour-index.co.uk: scot owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:17:51 +0100 (BST) From: Scot Elliott To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows In-Reply-To: <25512.893196730@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I believe there's another boot-loader on the FreeBSD CD-ROMs under /tools called osbs. I've used the beta version for a while and it's quite a good alternalive to the standard thing that /sysinstall puts on your disk. And it's prettier too ;) Yours Scot. On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:12:10 -0700 > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > To: Gary Kline > Cc: Mike Smith , dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, lrios@ziplink.net, > freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows > > > I've been meaning to ask the entire group the following > > questions(s) about OS bootloaders, since it seems that > > FBSD lacks a very powerful one. How hard would it be > > for someone who understands this problem to write a loader > > that would be powerful and configurable? > > Probably not very - why don't you do so and then come back and > tell us about it? > > People have been either quite happy or very displeased with > "booteasy", taking the time to let me know either way over the years, > but no one on the "displeased" side has ever bothered to submit > something better and I rather consider the issue closed until one of > them does. > > Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scot Elliott (scot@poptart.org) | Work: +44 (0)171 7046777 PGP fingerprint: FCAE9ED3A234FEB59F8C7F9DDD112D | Home: +44 (0)181 8961019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key available by finger at: finger scot@poptart.org or at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message