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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1947 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 17:14:12 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!vanepp From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Subject: Re: OS/2 Bootmanager Message-ID: <vanepp.730427878@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <costa-220293110715@escondido.prepress.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 00:37:58 GMT Lines: 22 costa@benton.prepress.com (Bob Costa) writes: >How do you get a bootmanager to toggle between OS/2 and 386bsd. To the >best of my knowledge os/2 bootmanger can't hack it. >Any suggestions??? >****************************************************************** >Bob Costa Voice: 619-931-2695 >Pre-Press Technologies, Inc. FAX: 619-931-2698 >2443 Impala Drive email: costa@benton.prepress.com >Calrsbad, CA 92008 >****************************************************************** What I did was install OS/2 with the boot manager in a spare partition (becauuse OS/2 wouldn't install otherwise), having taken a copy of the original partition table with pfdisk, and then once OS2 was in, wrote the old partition table back in (which wipes out the boot manager) and now the boot menu program will boot DOS, OS/2, or 386BSD. Sometime soon I will be trying to get NT into the mix once again (it didn't seem to like the bootmenu changes to the partition table). This is more than a little ugly, but it is the only way I could make work.