Boot manager

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Mon Apr 11 06:16:32 PDT 2005


> 
> 
> Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:47:22PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 20:36 schrieb Gert Cuykens:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Apr 3, 2005 7:33 PM, Christopher Nehren
> >>>
> >>><apeiron+usenet at coitusmentis.info> wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>On 2005-04-03, Teilhard Knight scribbled these
> >>>>What's wrong with FreeBSD's boot manager?
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>It writes ?? instead of windows
> >>>Nobody knows how it works for example how to install it witout sysinstall
> >>>:P

Simply isn't true.   Just read the handbook or some of the other
good FreeBSD books available and it is explained quite adequately.
That isn't to say that it might not be time for some able person
to take a look at making a couple of revising passes through it.  
But the current MBR is easy to install and use.

> try grub.

If you can't stand ??  as a label for XP which some people think is
appropriate anyway.

////jerry
> 
> Regards,
>     Frank


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