From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 19 12:14:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.erols.com (smtp1.erols.com [207.172.3.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25D2514C4B for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:14:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-141.s14.as2.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.141]) by smtp1.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA02939; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:14:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906191914.PAA02939@smtp1.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199906191852.LAA94369@sigma.veritas.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:14:04 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Aaron Smith Subject: Re: Changing Bootmgr display Cc: Dennis , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh , John Baldwin Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19-Jun-99 Aaron Smith wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:26:52 EDT, John Baldwin writes: >>Then don't use BootEasy. The OS-BS boot manager is quite nice, and the beta >>version (which seems very stable in my experience) even provides a nice >>colorful menu on boot up as well as a nice installation utility. >> >>And with that you can name each partition whatever you want, put them in any >>order, and optionally have a default partition to boot to. > > LILO's an option too, right? Is no one mentioning it for some > incompatibility I don't know about (I haven't used it with FreeBSD), or is > the reason political? > > Aaron No, I just happen to use OS-BS in an environment of machines that dual boot NT and FreeBSD. (And my machine which dual boots '95 and FreeBSD). I don't happen to use Linux, so I don't happen to use LILO. No politics there. Also, both BootEasy and OS-BS (stable and beta versions) come on the FreeBSD CD's, so I'd reccommend those to a FreeBSD user just because they are easy to get to (no 'net surfin' required) if they have the CD's. FWIW, OS-BS is a completely OS-independent project with no affiliation with FreeBSD, it just happens to be on the CD. (AFAIK) --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message