From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 08:02:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 910DC37B401 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:02:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A864643F75 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:02:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gorgarath@redwhitearmy.com) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6528DC7809; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:53:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.150 ([10.202.2.150] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:53:01 -0400 X-Mail-from: gorgarath@redwhitearmy.com X-Epoch: 1060955581 X-Sasl-enc: pGIs9FcG3X45JldYtzqeFw Received: from [192.168.0.250] (pcp067539pcs.glst3401.nj.comcast.net [68.46.101.119]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58166B65CA; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:13:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:11:51 -0400 From: John McDonnell To: Jud Sender: John@FreeBSD.ORG, McDonnell@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Goroth Computing In-Reply-To: References: <20030811143041.49A0.GORGARATH@redwhitearmy.com> Message-Id: <20030815013330.6257.GORGARATH@redwhitearmy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.06.02 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Loaders X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:02:03 -0000 Ranish Partition Manager has become an actual boot loader as well. The latest "beta" version supports any size hard drive with up to something like 30 primary partitions. It, of course, has to store the additional partition information in a seperate "Ranish Partition Manager" partition. (Suggested size of the last complete cyl. or possibly last incomplete cyl. though complete cyl. is recommended. 8MB partition is what I usually end up with when I've used it.) You have the option then of installing a "default" (M$), "Text", or "Compact" boot loader. I think the "Compact" bm is mostly the same as the Text one, but I can't really remember all the details. I never used Ranish for a boot loader. Here's a link to a site describing how to set up a multi-boot using (an older version of) Ranish: http://www.trombettworks.com/multi-boot.htm Sincerely, John D. McDonnell --------------------------------------------------------------- John D. McDonnell Goroth Computing gorgarath@redwhitearmy.com ( freebsd ) gorgarath@xsmail.com ( normal )