Re: boot loaders and USB devices

2010-02-25 Thread Aiza
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:54:00 +0800 From: Aiza Subject: boot loaders and USB devices My PC does not have the BIOS option to boot from USB. I use an USB cabled external hard drive for taking backups. It has FreeBSD installed on it which I want to boot from so the motherboard cabled hard

boot loaders and USB devices

2010-02-24 Thread Aiza
My PC does not have the BIOS option to boot from USB. I use an USB cabled external hard drive for taking backups. It has FreeBSD installed on it which I want to boot from so the motherboard cabled hard drive file systems are un-mounted during the dump. This USB drive will only be attached to d

Re: Boot Loaders

2003-08-15 Thread John McDonnell
Ranish Partition Manager has become an actual boot loader as well. The latest "beta" version supports any size hard drive with up to something like 30 primary partitions. It, of course, has to store the additional partition information in a seperate "Ranish Partition Manager" partition. (Suggested

Boot Loaders

2003-08-14 Thread John McDonnell
From reading the handbook (well, skimming it for referances anyway) and reading various posts on the mailing list, I believe I already know the answer, but just want to clarify it. FreeBSD doesn't need a specialized loader like Linux does. (i.e. Linux requires Lilo or now GRUB) And if you really wa

Re: Boot Loaders

2003-08-11 Thread Jud
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:38:56 -0400, John McDonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From reading the handbook (well, skimming it for referances anyway) and reading various posts on the mailing list, I believe I already know the answer, but just want to clarify it. FreeBSD doesn't need a specialized loa

Re: Boot Loaders

2002-12-13 Thread Jud
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:30:56 +, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone here hand any experience with this? http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Acronis+OS+Selector+8.0 Acronis OS Selector I wonder if you still need multiple disk drives. As far as I know the physical geomoet

Boot Loaders

2002-12-13 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Anyone here hand any experience with this? http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Acronis+OS+Selector+8.0 Acronis OS Selector I wonder if you still need multiple disk drives. As far as I know the physical geomoetry of hard drives is altered to give you 4 fdisk sections if winblows is on it anyw