From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 1 21:57:57 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 1 21:57:54 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (ftp.golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561B237B402 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 21:57:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AH9370.63.d1acf55c) with ESMTP id mmmsaaaa for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:05:56 +1100 Message-ID: <3A516E01.6A17FE3B@quake.com.au> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 16:58:25 +1100 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot ManagerQuestions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maarten van Schie wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > > > Maarten van Schie wrote: > > > > > > You guys talk about a 'duel boot'. But as far as I go a duel is an > > > opposition. It should be 'dual' caused by the composition. > > > > > > That might be a nice situation, but as soon as there is more than one > > O/S on a system they are both fighting for control, take as a prime > > example the system clock... > > > > So I think a duel boot is by definition a better description of > > for what we are talking about! > > I never realy encountered problems confronting Windows with Linux or > Windows with FreeBSD, so that's not realy true. If others do I reccon they > force them to(?). Obviously you have never tried to have a system use UTC... Any playing with BIOS settings would eventually break things in one system (eg. PnP O/S Installed, CardBuss mode, various other resource settings) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message