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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
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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
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