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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!agate!tfs.com!tfs.com!julian From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: OS Boot Select 1.32 - yet another boot menu program Message-ID: <1992Jul30.165820.2328@tfs.com> Date: 30 Jul 92 16:58:20 GMT References: <Y4K52MP@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> Organization: TRW Financial Systems Lines: 36 In article <Y4K52MP@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> wolfaajj@w250zrzzrz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) writes: > >OS Boot Select is a replacement of the ordinary master boot >program. It provides a customizable boot menu and customizable >timeout and the abiltity to automatically set the active partition >before booting. This avoids boot problems with some UNIX >systems (ISC). Unlike the OS/2 2.0 boot manager it only requires >the 512 byte of the master boot sector (sector 0) and no >seperate partition. The program knows a lot of partition ID's >(also 386BSD and BSDI BSD/386) but there is no restriction for >the boot menu since you could give the boot menu lines your >own names. >OS Boot Select comes with a installation program running >under DOS with a simple desktop for easy installation. It also >creates a backup of the old master boot sector. > Sounds great, but how about something that we non DOS people can use? could you post a UUENCODED version? What is LHA? It looks like uuencode, but uudecode won't touch it. > >-- Thomas > > >This is a self-extracting LHA archiv for DOS. >------------------------CUT HERE----------------------------- >begin 640 os-bs132.exe >M35J9 00 " 0___P_P ! ?#_' #K>2 3$A!)W,@4T98 +----------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / On assignment | / \ julian@tfs.com +------>x USA \ in a very strange | ( OZ ) 2118 Milvia st. Berkeley CA. \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ USA+(510) 704-3137(wk) \_/ \\ v