Editing the boot menu

Hanspeter Roth hampi at rootshell.be
Thu Jun 9 08:28:09 GMT 2005


  On Jun 08 at 17:42, Jos de Paula Rodrigues spoke:

> Did you try using Grub instead? It now supports UFS2, and is a great
> bootloader, with lots of features. You can find it in your ports tree.

Grub is heavy. The FreeBsd boot selector is much more efficient. It
is more suited for an old laptop.

The FreeBsd boot selector allows a one keystroke selection.
Grub forces you to press arrow keys until the curser is over the
desired option.

I put the FreeBsd boot selector into the MBR and for Linux Grub or
Lilo into a primary or extended slice (partition).

-Hanspeter


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