Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:50 +1000 From: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Message-ID: <1232068850.22938.11.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <6AEDCF9BC41A4571BCF2FE7F7D5F4376@GRANTPC> References: <A52E216F2A494535806F4E9ED84D649D@GRANTLAPTOP> <a9f4a3860901081723v75e5d53ds5d4cd5a275383e18@mail.gmail.com> <4966A975.5050202@ibctech.ca><B655610C432F4260BE4C8E92EF791CDE@GRANTLAPTOP> <4966B8E8.7070001@ibctech.ca><E68EFF8DA59D4DAE88199E1FFEF1A474@GRANTPC> <496762E1.6070107@gmail.com> <6AEDCF9BC41A4571BCF2FE7F7D5F4376@GRANTPC>
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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 Again, I could be outdated and/or wrong on this, but I doubt it has changed.
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