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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!shlnews!ottnews!pc058!gbuchanan From: gbuchanan@tbu.shl.com (Gardner Buchanan) Subject: Re: freebsd with OS/2 boot manager? Message-ID: <gbuchanan.2.0DDFC10C@tbu.shl.com> Lines: 20 Sender: usenet@ottnews.shl.com (News Administrator) Organization: SHL Systemhouse Ottawa branch X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B] References: <40ivel$84@rigel.infinet.com> <40jqul$pnk@cedar.mr.net> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 22:29:00 GMT >srose@mr.net (Steve Rose) writes: >macgyver@infinet.com (Wilson Liaw) wrote: >>Can OS/2's boot manager be used to boot FreeBSD? I'm currently using it >>to boot DOS, Linux, and OS/2, I'd like to add FreeBSD to it. >Works fine, I use boot manager to start FreeBSD, OS/2, and NT. I just installed freeBSD2.0.5 into a partition formerly occupied by OS/2. I was surprised to find that the OS/2 boot manager (located in another partition) was still happy to boot what it thought was OS/2 from my FreeBSD partition - and freeBSD didn't mind at all. This is, of course, not an officially supported configuration, but it seems to work. --- Gardner Buchanan SHL Systemhouse Inc. Ottawa Branch (613) 236-9734