From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jan 4 05:33:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA04680 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 05:33:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from uswat.advtech.uswest.com (uswat.advtech.uswest.com [130.13.16.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA04675 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 05:33:35 -0800 (PST) From: ptroot@uswest.com Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com ([151.116.23.138]) by uswat.advtech.uswest.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA28007; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 06:32:12 -0700 (MST) Received: from easthub (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id GAA16975; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 06:39:55 -0700 (MST) Received: by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Received: from kermit.acs.uswest.com by astro.acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA16673; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 07:36:34 -0600 Received: by kermit.acs.uswest.com (5.x/SPARCbook_POP1.1) id AA00978; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 07:36:33 -0600 Message-Id: <9601041336.AA00978@kermit.acs.uswest.com> Subject: Re: Boot not so easy To: jpp@deepthought.sv.vtcom.fr (Jean-Paul POIRET) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 07:36:33 -0600 (CST) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jean-Paul POIRET" at Jan 4, 96 12:56:04 pm X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Jean-Paul POIRET said: > > F1 ... DOS > F2 ... BSD > > Default : F2 > > Does somebody know how to get ALWAYS : > > Default : F1 > == > > and NEVER : > > Default : F2 > > Sometimes, my wife or my daughter are using my computer to run winword or > windows cdroms ... they stop unix machines as msdos machines. Today, my > poor FreeBSD partition runs sysinstall instead of login :-(. Well, it makes it a little harder on you, but why don't you just use the default boot block and use fdisk to switch the active partition. Just be sure to change it back to DOS when you shut down FreeBSD. Paul. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com "I have plenty of common sense... I just choose to ignore it!" - Calvin & Hobbes