From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 18:57:36 2002 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 F1D9A37B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:57:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972D443E81 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:57:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-67.28.75.95.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([67.28.75.95] helo=sparky) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17xeBz-0005mq-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 18:57:19 -0700 From: Jud To: SweeTLeaF , pbdlists@pinboard.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:58:02 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <20021004223848.D49694@pinboard.com> Message-Id: Subject: Re: grub boot loader or freebsd boot loader MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.05 build 1140 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 10/4/2002 4:38:48 PM, pbdlists@pinboard.com wrote: >Grub is very powerful. (I would like to see it as the default boot loader >on FreeBSD.) But it is not so easy to configure, a bit a steep learning >curve. However, if you dig in, you'll be greatly rewarded with >flexibility. I suggest you give it a shot. > >Cheers, > >Kurt > >On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:58:25PM -0500, SweeTLeaF wrote: >> >> Primary Master: 40gig >> Primary Slave: 20 gig >> >> I want to install XP on the first 20gig of the Master, Redhat 8.0 on >> the remaining 20gig of the Master and FreeBSD on the entire 20gig of >> the Slave. What would be my best options for being able to boot all 3. >> I heard grub had issues booting BSD so i just wanted to know my best >> approach before starting. I actually think (just my own opinion) that Grub is very easy to configure *if you read the documentation thoroughly*. But the necessity to read the documentation thoroughly before using Grub might disqualify it as the default bootloader. Something dead simple though not as full- featured, like the FreeBSD bootloader at present, may serve better as the default. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message