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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:28:12 -0700
From:      George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR 
Message-ID:  <16726.60956.268461.310990@satchel.alerce.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040925205504.05BDD5D09@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <1161.62.225.227.149.1096105586.squirrel@62.225.227.149> <20040925205504.05BDD5D09@ptavv.es.net>

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Kevin Oberman writes:
 > [...]
 > If you install FreeBSD, I'd suggest using BootEasy as a part of the
 > FreeBSD install, but you can use GRUB, LILO, the NT boot tool, or pretty
 > much what you prefer. I'm not sure LILO and GRUB will work or V5,
 > though. [...]

If by V5 you mean FreeBSD5, grub works just fine.  If you have a UFS2
root partition you need to make sure that you use a new enough version
of grub so that it can find the loader/kernel, but it's been able to
do that for a while (the version in the ports tree works great).

g.



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