From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 15:01:17 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA14023 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:01:17 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA14005 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:01:05 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA24468; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:00:39 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199511282300.PAA24468@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: O.k. - boot managers. To: smm@uunet.uu.net (Steve Mansfield) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:00:38 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Steve Mansfield" at Nov 28, 95 11:24:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1090 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk try os-bs (available in the tools direcotry too I think) > > First off, my *many* thanks to those who have offered help so far. It has > indeed been very useful. > > Now, here's my situation. I can boot my system again just fine from BSD or > DOS. I have to use DOS' FDISK to switch active partitions, but it works. > Now, I want to install a boot manager so that I can boot either one without > FDISK. When I tried BOOTEASY, it did the right thing with the DOS drive, > but did the wrong thing with the BSD disk (gave me a menu - even after I > told it to boot FreeBSD, it just gave me another menu...8-). Are there > other boot managers that do the right thing with two disks each with their > own OS on them, or is there simply a good switch to send booteasy that > wasn't evident from the info it came with? > > Steve Mansfield |The captain frowned. "It's a funny thing," he said, "but > smm@uunet.uu.net |why is it that the heathens and the barbarians seem to have > |the best places to go when they die?" > |Small Gods - Terry Pratchett >