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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news.maz.net!news.is-europe.net!news.shlink.de!thor.shn.com!hw From: hw@thor.shn.com (Henning Wickhorst) Subject: Re: Boot manager X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Reply-To: h.wickhorst@elmshorn.netsurf.de Organization: Private site Message-ID: <E7s28M.tu@thor.shn.com> References: <5h83p9$7ai$1@news3.isdnet.net> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 23:50:46 GMT Lines: 26 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6504 Mathieu Guillaume (mat@niki.isdnet.net) wrote: : I'd like to set up a system with NT on a first partition and BSDI on the : rest of the disk. So far, that's easy, and done actually. : But I want the following setup : if for some reason BSDI was to crash and : reboot (which it often does with the current versions of squid, it seems), : I want the system to automagically reboot on NT instead of BSDI. : The default behaviour of the boot manager (bootany) is to fall back on the : last booted system, from what I've seen. I tried marking the NT partition : active with disksetup, seems it doesn't change a thing. : : Does anyone know of a way to define a (permanent) default system to boot ? There is a bootmanager called 'os-bs'. This one will boot the same default system after a timeout. (You can adjust the time) You can find it on ftp.freebsd.org in /pub/FreeBSD/tools/osbs135.exe It is a self extracting archive and very easy to install (under DOS). Regards, Henning -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Henning Wickhorst Elmshorn, Germany E-Mail: h.wickhorst@elmshorn.netsurf.de ------------------------------------------------------------------