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From: wolframt@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram)
Subject: Re: os-bs fixed (v1.35), yet another boot manager
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witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow) writes:

>In article <4345@elwood.prz.tu-berlin.de>, 
>wolf@blade.prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) writes:
>
>| OS Boot Select (os-bs) is a replacement of the ordinary master boot
>| program.
>
>While you're here:
>
>Should os-bs be able to boot os2(hpfs) and 386bsd on the same disk.  Is
>there some trick to this?

It should work without any tricks (if you have a primary (HPFS) OS/2
partition, os-bs cannot boot from drives in extended (FAT) partitions).

regards,
Thomas
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  Thomas Wolfram, thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de
  EANTC, TU Berlin, wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de, +49 030 31421294