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From: kaleb@octopus (Kaleb Keithley)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Bootmanager
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 02:25:59 GMT
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In article rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
>In article 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).

If only that was all!  Have you tried 'shutdown -todos'?  I dunno, maybe
IBM slipped a new boot manager into later shipments, but the boot manager
I have doesn't grok 386bsd very well at all.

Should I get on my soapbox about how I think 386bsd (0.2) ought to work?
Or will I (and all the rest of the 386bsd user community) be "punished" 
because I exercised my right to freedom of speech?  I kid you not, punished
is exactly the word that was used that last time I suggested that there
might be a better way.

Anyway, it's been hinted that 386bsd 0.2 will be much friendlier about 
sharing the disk that it resides on.

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Kaleb Keithley                                kaleb@devvax.jpl.nasa.gov