From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 16:31:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF941065675 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 16:31:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from jedburgh.just4dns.com (jedburgh.just4dns.com [78.129.134.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F2A8FC14 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 16:31:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from [86.153.243.228] (helo=movens.plus.com) by jedburgh.just4dns.com with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K0fbB-0003pk-5O for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 17:31:01 +0100 Received: from [10.10.1.4] (redshift [10.10.1.4]) by postbag.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9DA1CC32 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 17:31:11 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <483AE5CD.6080000@magichamster.com> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:31:09 +0100 From: Mark Ovens User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080524) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <483AB939.7040607@magichamster.com> <200805261720.58431.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200805261720.58431.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: 1K0fbB-0003pk-5O X-Fuzioned-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-From: parish@magichamster.com X-Spam-Status: No X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - jedburgh.just4dns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - magichamster.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: Question about installing boot manager in sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:31:24 -0000 Mike Clarke wrote: > Well if you're already familiar and happy with grub installed on your > linux system why not install grub from ports and continue to use it. > Install it into 6.3 before you replace linux with 7.0 and add extra > commands to menu.lst ready to boot 7.0 from da1. Then when you install > 7.0 just tell sysinstall not to install a boot manager. > Duh! Now why didn't I think of that? Thanks Mike, I'll do that. Cheers, Mark