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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!duke.cs.duke.edu!macbeth.cs.duke.edu!not-for-mail From: pusateri@macbeth.cs.duke.edu (Thomas Pusateri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: freebsd boot util Date: 12 Dec 1995 14:07:41 -0500 Organization: Duke University Department of Computer Science Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4akjtt$9oc@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: macbeth.cs.duke.edu Keywords: boot I recently went through a boot sequence of 2.1-951104-SNAP, Windows 95, and back to 2.1-951104-SNAP. I use the boot program installed from the FreeBSD boot disk when labeling the disk. This only happened once but when I went to boot 2.1-951104-SNAP after windows, it said "Operating System not found". I then booted with the boot diskette and used the fixit floppy to try and recover but had no luck. The FreeBSD partition was someehow destroyed. It was still in the fdisk partition table though. My point is this, the auto select boot program installed with FreeBSD seems to remember the last OS you booted and default to that. I'm wondering if this isn't a little dangerous (constantly writing to the boot block to save the last default). Is there a reason FreeBSD decided to use this boot program as opposed to os-bs or something else that doesn't write to the boot block each time? Thanks, Tom