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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!peer-news.britain.eu.net!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: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 02:42:52 GMT Lines: 20 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <DKDovG.Aq@linus.demon.co.uk> References: <4c128e$5hh@news1.cle.ab.com> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: linus.demon.co.uk X-Mail2News-Path: linus.demon.co.uk In article <4c128e$5hh@news1.cle.ab.com>, Bruce Halco <bruce.halco@ab.com> wrote: >I want to evaluate FreeBSD on a system currently configured for >OS/2 Dual Boot. Since this is a temporary installation, I'd prefer >not to have to reconfigure the system for use with the OS/2 Boot >Manager (lotsa work). Will the FreeBSD boot manager work under >these conditions? Worked for me. OS/2 Dual Boot doesn't affect Booteasy (the utility used by FreeBSD) at all. Basically, booteasy determines which disk and partition you boot from; OS/2 Dual Boot just switches the boot code for a specific partition. (Even if you have it configured to boot OS/2, Booteasy offers to boot "DOS" from that partition, since it only knows about the partition type, and doesn't look at the actual boot code for the partition. It will of course boot OS/2.) Mark.