Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:26:42 -0400 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: Shantanu Mahajan <shantanoo@ieee.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Booting XP Home and FreeBSD 4.7 Release Message-ID: <oprnkyuslk0cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20030413180855.GA1745@dhumketu.homeunix.net> References: <20030413180855.GA1745@dhumketu.homeunix.net>
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:38:55 +0530, Shantanu Mahajan <shantanoo@ieee.org> wrote: > +++ Lucas Holt [freebsd] [10-04-03 22:24 -0400]: > | Thanks for all your comments. I have FreeBSD 4.7 installed now with | > the boot manager. Its working great! > > also you can try http://www.xosl.org There's also Grub in the FreeBSD ports. I'm currently using BootItNG because it groks RAID easily (which Grub currently doesn't AFAIK, necessitating workarounds like boot partitions on non-RAID drives) and is nicely automagic about setting up boot entries. But it's not free (as in beer or speech), and it doesn't work as easily with Linux as I'd like. BootEasy works but it ain't pretty; the NT bootloader just feels like a bit of a hassle to set up with bootable partitions on multiple disks. Which brings me to a question: How's XOSL with RAID, if anyone has experience in that regard? I'd want to boot Win98 (FAT32) and Linux (ext3) from one hard drive and FreeBSD (UFS1) and Win2K (NTFS) from a RAID-0 array (controller is a Promise 20276 onboard chip). Jud
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