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From: uddc@pool.info.sunyit.edu (David D. Colbey)
Subject: Re: boot managers to bring up NetBSD or DOS...
Message-ID: <1993Dec23.081310.10803@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 08:13:10 GMT
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J P Krishnamoorthy (jpk40@plasma.amdahl.com) wrote:
: I would like to know if there is a list of boot managers available.
: I am tired/scared of using fdisk to switch between my DOS and NetBSD 
: partitions. Is there a better way to do the switch? (other than using 
: floppy boot for DOS?)

The two most popular boot managers are OS-BS and BOOTEASY.  I personally use
OS-BS and it works great!  If you need to boot from a second drive you'll
have to use BOOTEASY.  Some people have mentioned fooling around with the
OS/2 boot manager, but I could not get it to work.

: Thanks for any info.

: -jp

Dave Colbey
uddc@pool.sunyit.edu