From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 19:54:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E51A16A41F for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:54:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2F1043D46 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:54:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: (qmail 6314 invoked by uid 0); 15 Jul 2005 19:54:02 -0000 Received: from user-69-73-60-132.knology.net (HELO Grumpy.DynDNS.org) (69.73.60.132) by smtp2.knology.net with SMTP; 15 Jul 2005 19:54:02 -0000 Received: by Grumpy.DynDNS.org (Postfix, from userid 928) id 2B78A6443; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:54:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:54:00 -0500 From: David Kelly To: George Ruch Message-ID: <20050715195400.GA31714@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <42D80E2D.707@3lefties.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42D80E2D.707@3lefties.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Three questions... 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, 15 Jul 2005 19:54:04 -0000 On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:27:41PM -0600, George Ruch wrote: > > Q2: Failing that, does anyone out there have any experience with > PowerQuest's (now Symantec) BootMagic boot manager (p/o Partition Magic > 8.0) and FreeBSD? The documentation indicated that it will recognize > Linux partitions, but says nothing about FreeBSD. You haven't tried installing FreeBSD yet? I ask because the very simple boot block FreeBSD installs has always worked well for me. Then again the last Microsoft product I booted with it was either NT4 or Win98. Its elegant in that it waits about 10 seconds then proceeds to boot what ever selection you made the previous time. One selection is "boot the next disk" where control is transfered to what ever boot manager is on the next disk. FreeBSD can be on the 2nd drive and still bootable. The boot process simply hops from one drive to the next. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.