From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 16:46:41 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 E43DE106566B for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:46:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.copeland@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f17.google.com (mail-qy0-f17.google.com [209.85.221.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1C48FC08 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:46:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.copeland@gmail.com) Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so2543887qyk.19 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:46:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; bh=thF1uCeFI5aX3fLfIko1L5Y1D0xwhENPHLS6JpzCDhM=; b=NoYjaijF3skBig57fAu5+baKrY3WTmf1XbV4PmZC1Kx8QfFXvzVSHXjVDeNvqaN2n9 /NzhW+RaOcQWdVd6BblSDkuSbf56YIgchnApHCzg7IKtJVTAXGbGn96hfiUl7AvEPpDt TunbCOhFnwybk9UONff3dUbCBaz3s9SKMOCYk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; b=O1wR7cm5BG0Gc9Ps7GD0W20h9rV5QgOgUBZbE2QbdDNqQvhV1c4lL+H7X+vKW7+pKl eviN+oLKAvHEPMGcwGOvt4bciivAHJ5RFOzTmASAEjbYqBWHN9nYM7k/rRPPz88g1djx jDTULYveTsihr2uCLVU2Klzel5PlCqAYItMqo= Received: by 10.214.46.20 with SMTP id t20mr3731908qat.103.1232124400668; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.148? (adsl-074-245-053-043.sip.jax.bellsouth.net [74.245.53.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm1172291ywo.20.2009.01.16.08.46.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:46:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4970B9ED.4050703@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:46:37 -0500 From: michael User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Da Rock References: <4966A975.5050202@ibctech.ca> <4966B8E8.7070001@ibctech.ca> <496762E1.6070107@gmail.com> <6AEDCF9BC41A4571BCF2FE7F7D5F4376@GRANTPC> <1232068850.22938.11.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1232068850.22938.11.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 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 16:46:42 -0000 Da Rock wrote: > 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. > That is completely off the wall wrong. You can install FreeBSD first and then Windows and you CAN fix the boot issue yourself with the cd OR you can add it to windows loader. you're just wrting the bootsector. not hard to do. > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >