From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 10:27:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA29363 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 10:27:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (pa3dsp18.x31.infi.net [206.27.115.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA29351 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 10:26:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA00206; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 13:26:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 13:26:38 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: That Doug Guy cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD + OS/2 = success :-) (Was: extended partition?) In-Reply-To: <199702020137.RAA14408@smtp.connectnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, That Doug Guy wrote: > Me too. :-) I'm interested in the other boot managers available from > FreeBSD, such as Boot Easy and OS-BS. Has anyone used either of them > and OS/2 Boot Manager, and would like to comment? I use both the OS/2 boot manager and OS-BS. On my first HD I have a partiton with OS/2 boot manager, a primary partition for DOS, a primary partition for Lose95, and an extended partition with a logical drive for OS/2 (HPFS) and a small FAT partition. My second drive is part HPFS and part FreeBSD swap. My third drive is FreeBSD. I couldn't get OS/2's boot manager to boot the third drive, and OS-BS wouldn't reliably set the 'active' partition on the first drive. Soooo, on booting OS-BS comes up with FreeBSD or "other" as it's choices (the first being the default, with a 5 second delay). "Other" invokes OS/2's boot manager allowing me to boot OS/2, DOS, or Lose95 (the latter only when someone has a gun to my head :}). > I am loathe to try experimenting with a working system. Usually turns them into non-working systems, doesn't it? :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------