From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 18 11:57:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27985 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:57:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27977 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:57:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21152; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:56:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:56:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: "Dan Mahoney Jr." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Switching/Drive Mounting. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message