From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 13 11:26:47 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 648F637B401 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.us.messagingengine.com (ny3.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CECDB43F75 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (server1.internal [10.202.2.132]) by server3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEEA4555FD; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:26:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:26:43 -0400 X-Epoch: 1050258403 X-Sasl-enc: lIYR22RQrlIYuyLe0+OyPg Received: from sparky (dialup-67.28.75.168.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.28.75.168]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 467A220AB1; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:26:42 -0400 (EDT) To: Shantanu Mahajan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030413180855.GA1745@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed From: Jud MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:26:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030413180855.GA1745@dhumketu.homeunix.net> User-Agent: Opera7.10/Win32 M2 build 2840 Subject: Re: Dual Booting XP Home and FreeBSD 4.7 Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:26:47 -0000 On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:38:55 +0530, Shantanu Mahajan 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