From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 23 23:18:14 2012 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 DC761106564A for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 23:18:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lobo@bsd.com.br) Received: from mail-vb0-f54.google.com (mail-vb0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F298FC08 for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 23:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbmv11 with SMTP id v11so6859031vbm.13 for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 16:18:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :x-kmail-markup:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id:x-gm-message-state; bh=u5VvaFy7tTfLF9QtT8pFsAd6UisoaE/DfW8GIUZ5jSE=; b=KzrkyXdW0CqrQ050Z6FJewjVPeAloPeGuPjvS0J1SiCV0iV39tduxe97Pz6sOqNlLT 3HtDateqRDlC2N3MKWKhc/4x0bmiguPG+8w7bvHqUCMCafi+xgu3zY7F/gImOl6xFHJ+ vk2XJUtWIBPExXIEGZa9636+tZDI6zw94ybSjO+kyE0cNH4J1VMZiQvcrzMO/xEf49nd UKafV80Amxw1t2Up5mpLsocj/ZjF8AI77OZ6ECgRiTP2OSBiTmVeS9vX6ZwiI7VqG1nL keB0EhZc/NLp2z+pDFx8pc0hXGDlWJjGQP4dHqXJOY/a60kfUkDwmbHvcj/1bQO8OQoL DnZg== Received: by 10.52.100.9 with SMTP id eu9mr13814640vdb.28.1337815093028; Wed, 23 May 2012 16:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papi.localnet ([187.113.167.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t15sm25023905vdj.3.2012.05.23.16.18.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 23 May 2012 16:18:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Mario Lobo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 20:18:36 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.7.4; amd64; ; ) References: <20120523214906.GA71149@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <201205231932.06706.lobo@bsd.com.br> <20120523224122.GA71528@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20120523224122.GA71528@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201205232018.36514.lobo@bsd.com.br> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk4PjMuoh/GmlILboe2/rvYWKv5t+ovRfsF9eobm79KQFgSVn4ZAXSGrOI++ixVwirfhCyT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3 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: Wed, 23 May 2012 23:18:14 -0000 On Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:41:22 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Since each system is going to be on different physical drives, why don't > > you make things easy for you and just use the BIOS boot menu to choose > > which drive to boot from? > > That surely seems the hard way. Why interrupt the boot and go > in to the BIOS every time when that is all provided for in the > boot structure? > > ////jerry Because if you want to switch systems you're gonna have to reboot anyway! The boot manager is nothing but an automatic interruption of the boot process to give you a chance to press a key for the system you want to boot from. But you're right. Pressing 3 keys instead of one or none IS the hard way. just my 0,02... -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)