From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 18:47:58 2002 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 A17A637B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:47:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (www.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E797B43ED4 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:47:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF86B16797; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:47:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:47:37 -0500 X-Epoch: 1040093257 X-Sasl-enc: Q3Fkxs2HXF1CPGETqDyhDw Received: from localhost (sdn-ap-013njpennP0152.dialsprint.net [65.176.0.152]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9AC5073; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:47:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:48:17 -0500 From: Jud To: Jerry McAllister Cc: mikemcg@ucla.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP Message-Id: <20021216214817.34c3e30e.judmarc@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <200212170052.gBH0q3F18007@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <016e01c2a553$7a2021f0$1a00a8c0@HOME> <200212170052.gBH0q3F18007@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:52:02 -0500 (EST) Jerry McAllister wrote: [snip] > If it finds a bootable slice that it > doesn't recognize, it just calls it '???' (but still knows how to > load its boot sector and pass off control. For slices on disks that > don't look bootable, it just ignores these and doesn't even list them > in the menu. Strictly speaking, the ??? isn't because the bootloader doesn't "recognize" the slice, but that the filesystem it does recognize on that slice has more than one name and might belong to one of several operating systems. In the case of NT/W2K/XP, the filesystem is called NTFS by MS, HPFS by OS/2, and I believe QNX may use it as well. Some sort of user-configurable name might be built in to the FreeBSD bootloader, but AIUI that would be difficult to do within its extremely small size. Grub and other bootloaders do this by means of user config files and other pieces that live outside the bootloader itself, and so don't have the size limitation. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message