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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds4!prang From: prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Juergen Prang) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Boot up menu Date: 13 Apr 93 15:24:07 GMT Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH Lines: 30 Message-ID: <prang.734714647@du9ds4> References: <9304111950.aa10480@gate.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de damian@centrix.demon.co.uk (damian) writes: >BOOT MENU >========= >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. >Anyone know anything about this? Yes, one such beast is Thomas Wolfram's os-bs. It installs itself after a menu-driven configuration step into the HD partition sector and is capable of handling up to 4 different bootable partitions. One site, where you can find it is ftp.uni-duisburg.de: /pub/pc/misc/os-bs135.exe login: anoymous, password: FULL e-mail address Hope this helps Juergen -- Juergen Prang | prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de University of Duisburg |******************************************** Electrical Engineering | Logic is a systematic method of coming Dept. of Dataprocessing | to the wrong conclusion with confidence