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- From: gebhart@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Ralf Gebhart)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] partitioning and other things
- Keywords: partition, magic numbers
- References: <1992Dec20.221431.12825@cs.cornell.edu> <1992Dec21.210848.13226@nas.nasa.gov>
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:58:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.175835.28198@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Dec21.210848.13226@nas.nasa.gov> tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec20.221431.12825@cs.cornell.edu> cchase@cs.cornell.edu (Craig Chase) writes:
- >>I have just installed 386bsd on my computer and have a few questions:
- >
- >>2) I am currently running the os/2 2.0 boot manager which allows me to select
- >> which operating system to boot. Problem, it will not boot 386bsd for
- >> me. Is there another boot manager available that will work with
- >> dos, os/2 and 386bsd?
- >
- >There are two which have been posted in the past six months. OS-BS
- ^^^
- three !
- >seems to be the most popular, judging from mentions on the net. My
- >favorite is Booteasy, because it more closely matches my usage patterns.
- >
- >OS-BS has a fixed default boot partition. When it asks and you don't
- >answer, after a few seconds thats the partition that boots. By
- >contrast, Booteasy uses the last chosen partition as the default. Since
- >I reboot more often than I choose a different boot partition I find it
- >more convenient.
- >
-
- The third one is called 'pboot' and is the only one of those three that is
- able to boot from a second disk, as far as I know.
-
- All three are available at ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- in /pub/BSD/386BSD/0.1/unofficial/boot-menus
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-
- Ralf
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