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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!yallara!lm From: lm@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Luke Mewburn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: dual partition boot block Date: 3 Dec 1993 05:49:22 GMT Organization: Technical Services Group, Dept. of Computer Science, RMIT Lines: 34 Message-ID: <2dmk12$dpg@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> References: <1993Dec2.033459.1249@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Reply-To: zak@rmit.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au cmaeda@cs.washington.edu (Chris Maeda) writes: > I have a netbsd and a dos partition on my machine. Right now I change > active partitions by booting dos from a floppy and running fdisk. Is > anyone successfully using something like bootany to select partitions > at boot time? > (I'm trying not to use my machine as a guinea pig this time since I've > trashed my boot blocks before and don't want to risk doing it again.) When I had DOS & 386bsd/netbsd (converted over at some stage) on one drive I had no problem with OS-BS 1.32, 1.34 or 1.35. Since then I've put DOS on one drive and netbsd on a new (second) drive. I installed booteasy 1.4 on drive 0 (the dos drive) and again it works without hassles - just don't install booteasy on drive 1. So, I get a menu which says: f1 - dos f5 - second drive and I just hit F5 for netbsd... (I intend to recompile booteasy's asm so that F5 sez `netbsd' instead :) > Thanks, > Chris Maeda -- ``Concealment is never as hard as people think, you Luke Mewburn must understand that. It's action while hiding that's <zak@rmit.edu.au> the hard part'' -- Coyote, in Kim Stanley Robinson's `Green Mars'