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Date:      Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:47:22 +0200
From:      Emanuel Strobl <emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com>
Cc:        Christopher Nehren <apeiron+usenet@coitusmentis.info>
Subject:   Re: Boot manager
Message-ID:  <200504032047.42533@harrymail>
In-Reply-To: <ef60af09050403113646dd69e4@mail.gmail.com>
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Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 20:36 schrieb Gert Cuykens:
> On Apr 3, 2005 7:33 PM, Christopher Nehren
>
> <apeiron+usenet@coitusmentis.info> wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> > On 2005-04-03, Teilhard Knight scribbled these
> >
> > curious markings:
> > > Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot
> > > several OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't wo=
rk
> > > together with a Drive Overlay.
> >
> > What's wrong with FreeBSD's boot manager?
>
> It doesnt have colors
> It doesnt look pretty
> It writes ?? instead of windows
> Nobody knows how it works for example how to install it witout sysinstall
> :P

The latter is not true, the manpage very clearly points to boot0cfg, a very=
=20
convinient tool and there's probably nothing out there which describes the=
=20
booting stages on i386 better than the boot(8) manpage.

If you don't like it it's another thing but you should read the excelent st=
uff=20
people are writing for you!

=2DHarry

>
> look a birdy zwoef (running away)
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