From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 19:10:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29756 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:10:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29697 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:09:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17364; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <361192D5.71B0EDF3@dal.net> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:09:25 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0920 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: francisco@natserv.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager Configuration. References: <199809291109.HAA18258@federation.addy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Personally, I tend to ignore questions which could be answered by 2 minutes on the ftp site. Here's a free hint, try: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/srcs/bteasy/ > > 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. There is no way to configure boot easy. If you want configuration, use OS-BS. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message