From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 17: 0:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 315EC37B405 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:00:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott1.nyc.rr.com (24-168-24-239.nyc.rr.com [24.168.24.239]) by nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with ESMTP id g2J0wmlu000464; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:58:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020318195824.00bdab90@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:00:36 -0500 To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" , "HODGE, DAVE (SBCSI)" , "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" From: Scott Subject: Re: does FREEBSD work with either "Partition Magic" or "Boot Magic" b y Power Quest? In-Reply-To: <20020319004902.DF588BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <20020318160431.25199.qmail@operamail.com> <20020318160431.25199.qmail@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 19:49 2002/03/18 -0500, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: >| > I'm trying to utilize one boot method for many various OS systems that I >| > need to run for evaluation. What I'm trying to find out is do you know if >| > the Power Quest product "Partition Magic" or "Boot Magic" have been >| > successfully used with FREEBSD OS? If yes, how were the products >| > utilized? > > >BootMagic could probably handle FreeBSD fine, though I find FreeBSD's own >BootEasy to be better (because it remembers the *previous* boot target and >uses that as the default--this is almost always what I want and I know of no >other boot program that behaves this way). Short answer: BootMagic will work with FreeBSD--I remember doing it awhile back when I used it. Longer answer, and not really answering the original question: These days, FWIW, I use Grub which I find quite easy to configure and use--I usually use a Linux version of it, however, I've also at times, configured FreeBSD's version (available in ports) without problem. HTH Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message