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Subject: Re: Rebooting to a different OS
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Annelise Anderson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Alex wrote:
> 
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> > 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.

You can telnet to the machine. The question is if you have write
privalege's from FreeBSD. You could have a script and batch file that
toggles the c:\boot.ini as administrator.

Kent

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