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To: George Michaelson <ggm@connect.com.au>
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Subject: Re: modifying boot mgrs FROM FREEBSD 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Aug 1997 11:51:46 +1000."
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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 23:15:43 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> So how can you tune the bootmgrs from within FreeBSD? Sure, lotsa recipes
> to drop to DOS and run <widget> but given the damn thing is actually
> written by sysinstall (albiet via weird magic in wizards.c returning hex
> in structs) there really should be a way to tweak/frob from inside Unix
> and modify the 1-2 bits needed to flag what the preferred booting option is.

I suppose, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that functionality. :-)

					Jordan