From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 5 9:27: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.clarkson.edu (mail.clarkson.edu [128.153.4.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC80B37B6FC for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 09:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tuinstra@clarkson.edu) Received: (qmail 8826 invoked by uid 0); 5 Apr 2000 16:26:46 -0000 Received: from sc-1-252.sc.clarkson.edu (HELO clarkson.edu) (128.153.23.143) by mail.clarkson.edu with SMTP; 5 Apr 2000 16:26:46 -0000 Message-ID: <38EC1069.D383F986@clarkson.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:19:53 -0400 From: Dwight Tuinstra X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building kernel in 4.0 References: <200004051506.LAA02052@world.std.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenneth W Cochran wrote: [snip] > This brings me to a question though: > Is there a boot-manager for *BSD that does *not* update the MBR? > For example, I want a "default" boot that does *not* "remember" > the "last OS booted" (& therefore does not update either the MBR > or other similar/related structures, unless I tell it to :). The "osbsbeta" boot manager, found in the "tools" directory, does not update the default to the last OS booted. However, I don't know if it leaves the MBR untouched. There are some docs for it (either in the same directory or in one of the subdirectories). HTH. --Dwight Tuinstra tuinNOSPAMstra.clarkson.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message