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From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann)
Subject: BOOTEASY
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 08:08:41 GMT
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damian@centrix.demon.co.uk (damian) writes:
)BOOT MENU
)=========
)
)This is not a question directly related to 386bsd, in fact it is not 
)really related to an OS, just the PC. 
)
)I read somewhere that there is a proggy around that sits at the lowest
)level boot on a PC and jumps up with a little menu asking which partition
)you want to boot from. I have three different OS's on my HD and having to
)boot up on floppies in order to run fdisk is a pain.

A friend just told me about this cute little proggie a couple of days
ago and I *like* it.  

It is called "booteasy" and you can find it using an archie search like
this:

$ archie -s booteasy

It includes source.
-- 
Daniel Ortmann             NDSU Electrical Engineering
ortmann@plains.nodak.edu   Fargo, North Dakota