From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 04:09:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA29851 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 04:09:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA29807 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 04:09:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from quisqueya.natserv.com (slip166-72-219-68.ny.us.ibm.net [166.72.219.68]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id HAA18258; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 07:09:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199809291109.HAA18258@federation.addy.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980928234937.007c76f0@rdc.cl> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 07:09:42 -0000 (GMT) Reply-To: francisco@natserv.com From: Francisco Reyes To: Anders Subject: RE: Boot Manager Configuration. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-Sep-98 Anders wrote: > Is there any way to configure the "Booteasy" FreeBSD boot manager so it > could perhaps pause and/or wait indefinetely instead of booting the last > booted OS? What about changing the default OS so that, for example, > FreeBSD is always booted by default instead of Win98, no matter what >booted last..? I have asked this question at leat 4 times to this list. Have NEVER got a single answer. :-( I have also asked where the souce is so I could do the changes myself. No replies either. > If there are no ways to configure the boot manager, will other boot > managers work with FreeBSD? What about the OS/2 Boot Manager? The OS/2 boot manager works, but has a problem of it's own. It uses a whole partition for itself. On a PC you can only have 4 partitions per physical HD. ---- francisco@natserv.com Live free or die!! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message