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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: MBR problems :( Date: 19 Jan 1995 23:45:15 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3fmtib$s8a@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3fkgp0$o2@satisfied.elf.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3fkgp0$o2@satisfied.elf.com>, *Hobbit* <hobbit@asylum.sf.ca.us> wrote: >The real deficiency here is that the boot manager insists on crapping >bytes back into the MBR. What genius-boy made that braindead design >decision?! LILO handles it much more elegantly. Jesus wept, dude! You think that LILO is the only boot manager around? There are LOTS of MBR-stomping boot managers, and just because we didn't pick the ONE boot manager that offers both options (MBR or partition) is no reason to slam us so aggressively over it. If you don't like the boot manager, then DON'T BLOODY INSTALL IT, ok??? Geeze! I thought Hobbit was an intelligent man before, now I'm not so sure. He seems to think that an OPTIONAL feature is somehow equivalent to a mandatory one. You don't HAVE to install FreeBSD's booteasy boot manager! You can install LILO is it makes you happy! I seriously do not understand all of this WHINING over it! Jordan