From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 11:41:45 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 83B0937B401 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A0843FB1 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gorgarath@redwhitearmy.com) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210E8970DC for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:41:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.150 ([10.202.2.150] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:41:44 -0400 X-Epoch: 1060627304 X-Sasl-enc: 71lNsUt1VLVcZcYmUVI0JA Received: from [192.168.0.250] (pcp067539pcs.glst3401.nj.comcast.net [68.46.101.119]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D153970EB for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:40:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:38:56 -0400 From: John McDonnell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: John@FreeBSD.ORG, McDonnell@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Gorath Computing Message-Id: <20030811143041.49A0.GORGARATH@redwhitearmy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.06.02 Subject: Boot Loaders X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gorgarath@redwhitearmy.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:41:45 -0000 =46rom reading the handbook (well, skimming it for referances anyway) and reading various posts on the mailing list, I believe I already know the answer, but just want to clarify it. FreeBSD doesn't need a specialized loader like Linux does. (i.e. Linux requires Lilo or now GRUB) And if you really wanted to (though I don't know why you would) you can use XP's "boot loader" to load FreeBSD. If I'm correct, then I'd also be able to use something like XOSL, ( [ www.xosl.org ] though it seems to no longer be updated at all as far as I can tell. Neither there or at sourceforge. [ xosl.sourceforge.net ] ) Ranish Partition Manager, [ www.ranish.com/part/ ] or any other boot loader available without haveing to do anything specific to boot FreeBSD (other than tell it the correct partition to boot from of course). If there are any other steps I'd have to take, please let me know. Sincerely, John McDonnell --------------------------------------------------------------- John D. McDonnell Goroth Computing gorgarath@redwhitearmy.com ( freebsd ) gorgarath@xsmail.com ( normal )