From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 09:42:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA03987 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:42:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.PII.COM (pii.com [192.77.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA03980 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:42:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PII.COM by PII.COM (4.1/SMI-4.4) id AA00524; Thu, 24 Oct 96 09:59:04 PDT Received: by smtp with Microsoft Mail id <326F9C52@smtp>; Thu, 24 Oct 96 09:41:54 PDT From: Robert Clark To: "'freebsd-questions'" Subject: FW: Boot Loader Date: Thu, 24 Oct 96 09:41:00 PDT Message-Id: <326F9C52@smtp> Encoding: 35 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I use the OSBS beta, that comes with the FreeBSD CD. (Allows booting from multiple partitions / drives) I really like Pfdisk, also off the FreeBSD CD. I keep a copy of Pfdisk on my favorite tools floppy. I think they're in the Tools directory off of the root of the CD. [RC] ---------- From: owner-freebsd-questions To: questions Subject: Boot Loader Date: Thursday, October 24, 1996 10:43AM After browsing and searching you site, I was unable to find any information on your boot loader. Specifically, the little boot menu program that allows the user to pick which partition they want to load from. I caint seem to find the exact name of the program or it's source. Although I like FreeBSD, I have a situation that requires Linux, and the 'LILO' (Linux Loader) is rather cheesy compared to the FreeBSD loader. What would be nice is to have your fdisk program and that loader as a separate package that could be installed on any system, i.e. Linux/FreeBSD, Win, DOS, OS/2, et al. If IBM had marketed their OS/2 FDISK program for $10, they'd have sold a ton of them. Thanks in advance for any help! -tks-