Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:25:57 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Alex <alex@montenegro.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rebooting to a different OS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003022323080.93933-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <38BE219A.2C277B07@3-cities.com>
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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" <alex@montenegro.com> > > > 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
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