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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:19:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com>
To:        mwm@mired.org
Cc:        marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot managers.
Message-ID:  <20000814121904.6C2A62002@nil.science-factory.com>
In-Reply-To: <14740.11223.531210.227894@guru.mired.org> (message from Mike Meyer on Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:37:43 -0500 (CDT))
References:   <14740.11223.531210.227894@guru.mired.org>

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> > If you use GRUB you could modify the default line in menu.lst:
> > 
> >     default 0
> 
> True. If you put the GRUB data on a DOS partition, that would allow
> you to build simple scripts to do this from any OS that can mount a
> DOS partition (which means pretty much any OS).
> 
> I've got a really ugly hack(*) for GRUB that makes the active
> partition the default partition, which I use with 'makeactive' to
> cause booting some OS's to make them become the default OS to boot. I

Thanks for proving that I am not the only insane hacker.. :-)

Regards,
Marc


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