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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
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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.
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