Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 13:53:24 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> To: Steve Mansfield <smm@uunet.uu.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: O.k. - boot managers. Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951130134344.14736A-100000@wedge.cc.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <QQzrvd00968.199511281624@triryche.uu.net>
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On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Steve Mansfield wrote: > 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? I use OSBS and have done so since I first installed FreeBSD-1.1. The version I use now is OSBS-2.0.beta8 (which has been around for ages and has never given me any problems). This version supports booting from multiple drives and has a nice installer and interface for configuring it. The file you need is osbsBETA.exe which you can find at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dos-tools this is a self-extracting archive with all the files you need to get going. Cheers, Carey > > 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 > ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================
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