From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 7:54:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.immure.com [207.8.42.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D114837B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:54:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0FFrtb98483; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:53:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:53:55 -0600 From: Bob Willcox To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: "Andresen,Jason R." , Alfred Perlstein , hackers list Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version? Message-ID: <20010115095355.C98345@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <20010111135851.A16078@luke.immure.com> <20010111120332.D7240@fw.wintelcom.net> <3A5E1A3E.5A17AF9E@mitre.org> <20010111160653.A16818@luke.immure.com> <3A62D6B6.5A8E5E1D@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A62D6B6.5A8E5E1D@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:53:42PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:53:42PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > Well, ob-bs didn't work either. I went to the referenced site for > > XOSL and it certainly looked interesting...but was way more than I was > > looking for at this time (I was happy with the default FreeBSD installed > > boot manager before W98 trashed it and I certainly didn't want to create > > partion for it...which seemed to be required). On the XOSL web site I > > found a refernence to the "Ranish Partition Manager" which I wound up > > installing and it worked for me. :-) > > FreeBSD boot manager is probably installable by boot0cfg. Ah Ha! That does look like it. I'll have to give it a try. I prefer the standard FreeBSD boot manager as it displays the partition type for the user to see and defaults to boot the last partition booted (really handy with Windoze...as you get to do it so often). Thanks, Bob > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > capo@a.crazy.bsdconspiracy.net > > "There is no spoon." -- Kiki > -- Bob Willcox There's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 bob@VIEO.com architecture that allows you to install Windows. Austin, TX -- Matthew D. Fuller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message