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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 10:14:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Leif Neland <leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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Subject: Re: boot-manager control
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On 14 Oct 1997, Leif Neland wrote:

> I have a pc, which I need to run both dos and fbsd.
> 
> Is it possible to alter the default system, the machine boots with,
> instead of "press F1 for Dos, F3 for FreeBSD", so I have to be around? 
> 
> I want to from a cronjob say "set_next_boot_to dos", then reboot.

Booteasy isn't this hackable, unfortunately, unless you can figure out
where the default option is stored in the botblock, then have a program
modify that.  Booteasy's source is included on the CDROM or ftp site in
tools/src/.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major