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Subject: Re: BOOTEASY
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From: jorgense@plains.NoDak.edu (Lee A. Jorgensen)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 14:08:47 GMT
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In article <C5ExAH.KoK@ns1.nodak.edu> ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) writes:
)damian@centrix.demon.co.uk (damian) writes:
))BOOT MENU
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))
))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.  

Be WARNED though, some computers DON'T like BOOTEASY!  (it's easy enough
to uninstall though)

It (booteasy) put my computer into an endless loop, rebooting, while
attempting to get 386bsd to boot.  DOS booted fine though.

-Lee.

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