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From: lm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: OS Boot sector select
Date: 21 Aug 1994 20:04:53 +1000
Organization: Technical Services Group, Dept. of Computer Science, RMIT
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gspiegel@archimedes.chinalake.navy.mil (Greg Spiegelberg) writes:
> I seem to remember there being a program that replaces the boot sector
> on the primary drives 0 partition that allows you to select from a list
> of possible OS's on one system.  Anyone know where this is at and if
> it'll agree with DOS 6.2, NetBSD, and Linux?

There's a few around (OS-BS, Booteasy, etc.) I've used the first two
before, settling on the latter (was better for my situation.)
Can be found at:
	ftp.cs.rmit.oz.au:ftp/pub/OS/NetBSD/NetBSD-0.9/utilities/
		booteasy1.4.zip		bootsector OS selector
		pfdisktc.zip		cmd line partition selector