From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 08:42:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA29492 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:42:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grinch.cpicorp.com (root@ns2.cpicorp.com [204.233.170.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA29482 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freakazoid.cpicorp.com ([204.233.170.50]) by grinch.cpicorp.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21450 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:45:23 -0500 Message-ID: <326F8E8E.B92@cpicorp.com> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:43:10 -0500 From: Tom Schaefer Reply-To: tks@cpicorp.com Organization: CPI X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot Loader Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk After browsing and searching you site, I was unable to find any information on your boot loader. Specifically, the little boot menu program that allows the user to pick which partition they want to load from. I caint seem to find the exact name of the program or it's source. Although I like FreeBSD, I have a situation that requires Linux, and the 'LILO' (Linux Loader) is rather cheesy compared to the FreeBSD loader. What would be nice is to have your fdisk program and that loader as a separate package that could be installed on any system, i.e. Linux/FreeBSD, Win, DOS, OS/2, et al. If IBM had marketed their OS/2 FDISK program for $10, they'd have sold a ton of them. Thanks in advance for any help! -tks-