From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 13:59:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09137 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09020 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:58:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA19556; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:56:35 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:55:58 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Francisco Reyes cc: Anders , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Boot Manager Configuration. In-Reply-To: <199809291109.HAA18258@federation.addy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote: > 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 you guys have the CDROM's from Walnut Creek, there's an alternative boot-manager on it call osbs-beta in the the tools subdir (?), that does exactly what you want. You can configure the name and delay time as well. I definitely recommend it over BootEasy. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message