Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 20:18:36 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3 Message-ID: <201205232018.36514.lobo@bsd.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20120523224122.GA71528@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20120523214906.GA71149@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <201205231932.06706.lobo@bsd.com.br> <20120523224122.GA71528@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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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)
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