From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 0: 0:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C002737C0DC for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 00:00:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA90407; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:51:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:51:34 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Alex Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rebooting to a different OS In-Reply-To: <200003012045.MAA19433@www.geocrawler.com> 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 Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Alex wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Alex" > Be sure to reply to that address. > > I have FreeBSD/Win NT dual boot machine. If > FreeBSD is up on my machine, is there a way to > remotely connect to it, and restart it with > WinNT (and vice versa). > The only boot manager that I know of that can do this is System Commander, which needs a dos partition in which to keep its files. It creates, when it boots, a file called syscmndr.sys, in C:\. If the System Commander is set up to boot the last operating system loaded by default, you can copy this file (when FreeBSD is loaded) to syscmndr.bsd, and when nt is loaded, to syscmndr.nt. Then you copy whichever one you want to syscmndr.sys, and reboot. This assumes you can log in to either system and get write access to the dos drive containing syscmdr.sys and so forth. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message