Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:08:58 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Alex <alex@montenegro.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rebooting to a different OS Message-ID: <38BE219A.2C277B07@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003012344060.90344-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Annelise Anderson wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Alex wrote: > > > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Alex" <alex@montenegro.com> > > Be sure to reply to that address. > > > > I have FreeBSD/Win NT dual boot machine. If > > FreeBSD is up on my machine, is there a way to > > remotely connect to it, and restart it with > > WinNT (and vice versa). > > > The only boot manager that I know of that can do this is > System Commander, which needs a dos partition in which to keep > its files. It creates, when it boots, a file called > syscmndr.sys, in C:\. If the System Commander is set up to > boot the last operating system loaded by default, you can > copy this file (when FreeBSD is loaded) to syscmndr.bsd, and > when nt is loaded, to syscmndr.nt. Then you copy whichever > one you want to syscmndr.sys, and reboot. > > This assumes you can log in to either system and get write > access to the dos drive containing syscmdr.sys and so forth. You can telnet to the machine. The question is if you have write privalege's from FreeBSD. You could have a script and batch file that toggles the c:\boot.ini as administrator. Kent > > Annelise > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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