From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 05:22:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40846106568C for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:22:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from angel.comcen.com.au (angel.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D2D8FC2C for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:22:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.199] (unknown [202.172.126.254]) by angel.comcen.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005F35C2F8B6 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:23:35 +1100 (EST) From: Da Rock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-oCkRF+lll2cnm7MDZKIj" Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:21:53 +1000 Message-Id: <1232083313.22938.78.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Subject: [Fwd: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:22:26 -0000 --=-oCkRF+lll2cnm7MDZKIj Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --=-oCkRF+lll2cnm7MDZKIj Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: Forwarded message - Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Content-Type: message/rfc822 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager From: Da Rock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <6AEDCF9BC41A4571BCF2FE7F7D5F4376@GRANTPC> References: <4966A975.5050202@ibctech.ca> <4966B8E8.7070001@ibctech.ca> <496762E1.6070107@gmail.com> <6AEDCF9BC41A4571BCF2FE7F7D5F4376@GRANTPC> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1232068850.22938.11.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:51 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? > > What I am asking, is, somehting like: > > Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the > sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with: > > F1 Windows > F2 FreeBSD > F5 Disk1 > > -Grant Not a chance- why do you think you have to install Window$ first? Gates and his cronies aren't going to make it easy for you to install free software, and so they make it as hard as possible hoping you'll install Window$ and give up. I haven't heard of anywhere that any of the freeloaders (pardon the pun) that can boot a M$ system- only paid for software like Bootmagic. Or use the M$ loader in window$ to boot other systems- strange that it should be able to do that, but then most of the OSS is KISS based rather than the rigmarole M$ go to. Again, I could be outdated and/or wrong on this, but I doubt it has changed. --=-oCkRF+lll2cnm7MDZKIj--