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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!cd.amdahl.com!gab10 From: gab10@cd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Cross booting BSD <-> DOS Keywords: Cross Booting,Partition Tables,DOS,BSD Message-ID: <7bZX02S324yL01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 2 Oct 92 07:30:20 GMT References: <ganter.717794149@milton> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 18 In article <ganter.717794149@milton>, ganter@milton.u.washington.edu (M. Ganter) writes: > I have BSD running on my 486DX-33. I am impressed! Thanks to all > for more than a job well done. I have my 200 MB partitioned with > 80 MB for DOS and 120 MB for BSD. I've read 386BSD.FAQ and BUGLIST > so I understand that shutdown -todos does not work. Currently, I've > been using the boot off floppy technique (then FDISK to change active > partitions). Question: IS there a utility available which provides > partition selection at boot time? Do I have to re-install everything > both DOS and BSD to use such a tool? ...Mark There is a pretty friendly program called OS-BS that should take care of your problem. I'm pretty sure it is on agate in the 386BSD subdirectory somewhere. You do not have to reinstall the O/Ss to use it. -- Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a | great idea hits you, and just before you realize | what is wrong with it.