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From: mfoley@infinet.com (Mark Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD/386+OS/2 boot manager
Date: 12 May 1994 05:48:16 GMT
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Ross Hayden (ross@ndlc.occ.uky.edu) wrote:
: Just a quick question here: has anyone got BSD/386 1.1 to work with OS/2
: 2.1's boot manager program?

: The reason I don't want to use bootany is because I have two hard drives,
: and bootany won't work with two.

: If you have any ideas, I'd appreciate them!

I tried it under OS/2 2.0 and couldn't get it to work. My solution was
to put BSD on a separate partition and use a DOS boot floppy to change
the active boot partition. Yes, it does involve 2 boots and sticking a
floppy in, but I change between OS/2 and BSD infrequently so it's not
that big a deal.