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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2065 ; Thu, 25 Feb 93 10:10:25 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!hri.com!noc.near.net!bigboote.WPI.EDU!wtw From: wtw@gingko.WPI.EDU (William T. Warner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: OS/2 Bootmanager Message-ID: <1mek11$ds0@bigboote.WPI.EDU> Date: 24 Feb 93 01:46:09 GMT References: <costa-220293110715@escondido.prepress.com> <730503019rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> Organization: Dept of Computer Science, WPI Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: gingko.wpi.edu In article <730503019rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes: >In article <costa-220293110715@escondido.prepress.com> 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. > >What doesn't work? I had no problems using it with OS/2 and 386BSD. >First, have boot manager and OS/2 installed, leave room for a 386BSD >partition. Then install 386BSD on this free space. Reboot into OS/2 >and use FDISK (or FDISKPM) there to add the 386BSD partition to the >boot manager menu (give it a name too). > >Kai Uwe Rommel The problem I had, at least, was that 386bsd would hang when started from Os/2's Boot manager menu. I had no problem installing the OS's, just booting 386bsd. I wonder if my problem involved using the 386bsd boot block, versus the OS/2 one, or whatever. I guess you're using the 386bsd one, since you installed 386bsd last. Or maybe not... any ideas? (BTW, the problem is now moot for me, since I no longer share the hard drive among the two OS's. But info for the future could be useful..) Bill -- Bill Warner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute, CS graduate program. wtw@wpi.wpi.edu | ** Happy OS/2 2.x and 386BSD user **