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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:56:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Dan Mahoney Jr." <danm@DanMahoney.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot Switching/Drive Mounting.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811181156050.14521-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811171701360.24457-100000@acetylene.vapornet.net>

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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Dan Mahoney Jr. wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Dan Mahoney Jr. wrote:
> > 
> > > Does anyone know a way to pass "default" commands to the boot manager?
> > > This would be used where I want a single command that will reboot my
> > > system from another drive.  Notably, I want to reboot into dos.
> > 
> > I'm not sure I understand what you're asking .. which boot manager?
> 
> Booteasy, although I may soon have to switch to osbs to do what I need.  I
> want to be able to, from freebsd, type something like "dosboot", and it
> will reboot the machine from the other partition.  I'd also like to be
> able to do the same from dos to boot freebsd.  I have reboot programs for
> both platforms, the only trick is finding some way to reset the boot
> manager's default *before* I reboot.

Ah, ok.  No, I don't know of any tool to tweak Booteasy from FreeBSD.  

> I'm sure something written in assembler could do it (and could also have
> the potential to eat my drives for breakfast).

It's a matter of poking the appropriate bytes in the MBR.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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