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From: Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com>
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> ie If in FreeBSD I'd like to be able to say - Boot Doze;shutdown -r
> now. Then go off and have a coffee rather than having to wait around
> at the beck and call of a machine...

If you can manage

    <write number of dos partition to boot sector at location xyz,
     where xyz holds number of default boot partition>
    reboot

your problem is solved.
If you use GRUB you could modify the default line in menu.lst:

    default 0
            ^---- number of partition entry to boot on default

Regards,
Marc



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