From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 18:55:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA16280 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 18:55:43 -0800 Received: from wedge.cc.utas.edu.au (wedge.cc.utas.edu.au [131.217.10.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA16273 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 18:55:37 -0800 Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by wedge.cc.utas.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.6) id NAA15356; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 13:53:25 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 13:53:24 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn To: Steve Mansfield cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: O.k. - boot managers. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ! =========================================================================