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Subject: Re: Boot manager
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On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:47:22PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 20:36 schrieb Gert Cuykens:
> > On Apr 3, 2005 7:33 PM, Christopher Nehren
> >
> > <apeiron+usenet@coitusmentis.info> wrote:
> > > On 2005-04-03, Teilhard Knight scribbled these
> > > What's wrong with FreeBSD's boot manager?
> >
> > It writes ?? instead of windows
> > Nobody knows how it works for example how to install it witout sysinstall
> > :P
> 
> The latter is not true, the manpage very clearly points to boot0cfg, a very 
> convinient tool and there's probably nothing out there which describes the 
> booting stages on i386 better than the boot(8) manpage.

I just checked boot0cfg and it really seems to be impossible to
control ?? characters.