Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 17:12:28 -0400 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing Bootmgr display Message-ID: <199906192220.SAA11474@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199906192205.SAA22343@smtp4.erols.com> References: <199906192107.RAA11294@etinc.com>
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Will it allow you to 1) specify which partitions appear on the menu (ie, eliminate non-bootables) and 2) set the partition last selected to the default/active partition? Dennis At 06:05 PM 6/19/99 -0400, you wrote: > >On 19-Jun-99 Dennis wrote: >> At 03:14 PM 6/19/99 -0400, you wrote: >>> >>>On 19-Jun-99 Aaron Smith wrote: >>>> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:26:52 EDT, John Baldwin writes: >>>>>Then don't use BootEasy. The OS-BS boot manager is quite nice, and the >> beta >>>>>version (which seems very stable in my experience) even provides a nice >>>>>colorful menu on boot up as well as a nice installation utility. >>>>> >>>>>And with that you can name each partition whatever you want, put them in >> any >>>>>order, and optionally have a default partition to boot to. >>>> >>>> LILO's an option too, right? Is no one mentioning it for some >>>> incompatibility I don't know about (I haven't used it with FreeBSD), or is >>>> the reason political? >>>> >>>> Aaron >>> >>>No, I just happen to use OS-BS in an environment of machines that dual >> boot NT >>>and FreeBSD. (And my machine which dual boots '95 and FreeBSD). I don't >>>happen to use Linux, so I don't happen to use LILO. No politics there. >>> >>>Also, both BootEasy and OS-BS (stable and beta versions) come on the FreeBSD >>>CD's, so I'd reccommend those to a FreeBSD user just because they are easy to >>>get to (no 'net surfin' required) if they have the CD's. >>> >>>FWIW, OS-BS is a completely OS-independent project with no affiliation with >>>FreeBSD, it just happens to be on the CD. (AFAIK) >> >> And for those of use who dont use the CD method, where might we find it? >> Does it boot the "last used" OS or is there a specific default? > >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/{osbs135.exe|osbsbeta.exe} > >The osbsbeta.exe is the beta version. The stable version allows you to set >custom names for partitions, but I prefer the nice look of the beta version >myself. I'm not sure about the stable version, but the beta version allows you >to choose between having a set default or having the default be the 'last used' >OS. > >HTH. > >> Dennis > >--- > >John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ >PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc >"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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