Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:44:03 +0000 From: Simon Siemonsma <s.siemonsma@hccnet.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: easy boot Message-ID: <200201021939.UAA04968@smtp.hccnet.nl> In-Reply-To: <3C334D27.7080709@jackieoyeah.com> References: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC826CA1@exchange.Navitaire.com> <3C334D27.7080709@jackieoyeah.com>
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Well this reaction at least triggered me to take out me FreeBSD CD to figure out where the files are: Go to the tools directory on the CD. The readme file is clear. It works perfect. This is also a fine solution if you somehow managed to delete your bootmanager. Which happened to me when I was forced to reinstall windows. Simon Siemonsma On Wednesday 02 January 2002 18:10, you wrote: > Forgive me, but > > why in the world would you want to use the FreeBSD bootloader if you're > just using 2k? > > As for the boot loader itself, I don't know a convenient way of > installing it without FreeBSD, since several files are dependant on > FreeBSD actually being installed. > > If you just want to be cute and have a different bootloader, you may > want to look at the GRUB from the Hurd project. I think it may be able > to bootstrap from fat32 or ntfs; don't quote me on that. > -jeff > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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