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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!linus.demon.co.uk From: Mark Valentine <mark@linus.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager on OS/2 Dual Boot System? Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 02:17:55 GMT Lines: 21 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <DKJ7pv.11q@linus.demon.co.uk> References: <4c128e$5hh@news1.cle.ab.com> <DKEpz1.36q@linus.demon.co.uk> <4c48m9$f8v@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4c7aft$rcb@news1.cle.ab.com> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: linus.demon.co.uk X-Mail2News-Path: linus.demon.co.uk [Mail to your address bounces with user unknown...] In article <4c7aft$rcb@news1.cle.ab.com>, <s21157@cle.ab.com> wrote: > I'm hoping to leave the >existing Dual Boot setup alone, and use the FreeBSD equivalent of >Boot Manager to select either 1) FreeBSD, or 2) DOS-OS/2 (whichever >was Dual-Booted last). Yes, it should "just work". You can also check out the DOS Booteasy 1.7 package beforehand if you want - it should be in the tools directory on ftp.freebsd.org. Use "fdisk /mbr" if you need to revert to the default boot record (or use Booteasy's bootinst to restore a saved boot record). The FreeBSD installation just writes out the same Booteasy boot record. (Booteasy is a lovely example of a utility which does exactly what it needs to and nothing more, rather elegantly.) Mark.