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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
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Message-ID: <2dmk12$dpg@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
References: <1993Dec2.033459.1249@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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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
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the hard part''
-- Coyote, in Kim Stanley Robinson's `Green Mars'