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From: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: System Commander wiped out my BSD partition, HELP!! Date: 24 Jan 1996 16:24:37 -0500 Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4e682l$ldq@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <4djpkc$cn8@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4dtb9f$lug@stealth.mindspring.com> Reply-To: jaitken@vt.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: csugrad.cs.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!news.rucc.net.au!sparky.wire.net.au!news.internex.net.au!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail Ron Bolin (rlb@mindspring.com) wrote: : Don't feel bad, I had the same experience with System Commander. : I now use OSBS, it works fine even from a second disk with FreeBSD 2.01. Do any of the freely available boot-managers work on systems with >2 disks? I've got a PC with 2 IDE and 2 SCSI drives in it. DOS/Windoze '95 resides on the two IDE drives, and FreeBSD is on the SCSI drives. So far, the only way I've been able to switch between these two is to either define or not define the IDE drives in the BIOS setup. This is easy enough, and I've grown accustomed to it, but the thought of a fancy boot manager like SC is appealing. The fact that it doesn't quite work is not. :) Thus I was hoping that there might be an equivalent, freely available product. -- Jeff Aitken jaitken@vt.edu