Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:58:04 -0400 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing Bootmgr display Message-ID: <199906192105.RAA11285@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199906191852.LAA94369@sigma.veritas.com> References: <Your message of "Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:26:52 EDT." <199906191828.OAA23635@smtp4.erols.com>
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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
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