From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 17:03:56 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 341F337B401 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7320C43F75 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2318977B5; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:03:54 -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 20:03:54 -0400 X-Epoch: 1060646634 X-Sasl-enc: ez8zsNwV1v5A9fJnXhtTPw Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.84.99.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.84.99]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 937C7983DF; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:03:14 -0400 (EDT) To: gorgarath@redwhitearmy.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030811143041.49A0.GORGARATH@redwhitearmy.com> Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:03:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030811143041.49A0.GORGARATH@redwhitearmy.com> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 3032 Subject: Re: Boot Loaders X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:03:56 -0000 On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:38:56 -0400, John McDonnell wrote: > From 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 I was under the impression that Ranish PM was only a partition manager (available as part of XOSL as well as standalone?) rather than a bootloader. For managing and imaging partitions, have a look at BootItNG , free for 30 day trial and IMO easier to use than Ranish. For a bootloader, you can certainly use XOSL; you may want to have a look at GAG , or you can install Grub from ports - /usr/ports/sysutils/grub. Jud