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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Nextboot written
Date: 15 Mar 1997 00:49:04 GMT
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Vladimir Mencl <vmen3237@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:

> About two or three weeks ago, somebody
> here asked, if there's a way how to change, which
> os will be booted the next time.
>   I've written a program nextboot,...

Ty jsi druhy, bohuzil. :-(

Julian Elischer once wrote nextboot, although it's not very much used.
It relies on the second sector being empty.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)