From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 23:30:11 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 8CEDB37B5A3 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:30:08 -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 XAA93941; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:25:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:25:57 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Kent Stewart Cc: Alex , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rebooting to a different OS In-Reply-To: <38BE219A.2C277B07@3-cities.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 Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > > 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. > > 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 I think that would work too; this assumes you're using the nt boot manager. I couldn't figure out how to make it work, perhaps because I was working with two drives. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message