From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 19 14: 5:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A416714FF6 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:05:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA11285; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 17:05:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906192105.RAA11285@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:58:04 -0400 To: Aaron Smith From: Dennis Subject: Re: Changing Bootmgr display Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199906191852.LAA94369@sigma.veritas.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:52 AM 6/19/99 -0700, you 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? The only objection I have to lilo is that is doesnt display a menu by default and you have to specify a default (unlike the "last-used" method of freebsd), which is a pain for systems that generally have no keyboard or monitor. DB > >Aaron > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message