From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 2 11:39: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8673E37B41E for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:39:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from there by smtp.hccnet.nl via fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.94.168] with SMTP for id UAA04968 (8.8.8/1.13); Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:39:00 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <200201021939.UAA04968@smtp.hccnet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Simon Siemonsma To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: easy boot Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:44:03 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <3C334D27.7080709@jackieoyeah.com> In-Reply-To: <3C334D27.7080709@jackieoyeah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Well this reaction at least triggered me to take out me FreeBSD CD to figure out where the files are: Go to the tools directory on the CD. The readme file is clear. It works perfect. This is also a fine solution if you somehow managed to delete your bootmanager. Which happened to me when I was forced to reinstall windows. Simon Siemonsma On Wednesday 02 January 2002 18:10, you wrote: > Forgive me, but > > why in the world would you want to use the FreeBSD bootloader if you're > just using 2k? > > As for the boot loader itself, I don't know a convenient way of > installing it without FreeBSD, since several files are dependant on > FreeBSD actually being installed. > > If you just want to be cute and have a different bootloader, you may > want to look at the GRUB from the Hurd project. I think it may be able > to bootstrap from fat32 or ntfs; don't quote me on that. > -jeff > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message