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From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com>
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irie_1i0n wrote:
> 
> het.
> pretty new to computers here.
> am running redhat 7.2, using lilo as my bootloader.
> not sure how to set things up so i can choose between freebsd or
> redhat when i boot up.
> can anyone assist me here?
> thanks

I've always found that the FreeBSD bootloader is the easiest boot
manager to use, bar none. You install it and it works. You don't get any
fancy menus or stuff, but it shows you a list of partitions and you
choose one to boot. I wouldn't put it on my Mom's computer, because it
won't tell you which partition is the boot partition. But configuring it
takes zero effort.

Alternately, LILO does a fine job of booting FreeBSD. So does GRUB, but
I wouldn't wish having to configure GRUB on my worst enemy.

David

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