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"David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote:
> 
>> Nothing against 'booteasy', it does the job - but it looks ugly :-)
> 
> If that is the only reason to use grub, try osbsbeta.exe that is in the
> tools directory of your CDROM or ftp.freebsd.org.


I used to use OSBS quite a bit.  Unfortunately,
it is getting a bit long in the tooth; it
does not boot partitions that start beyond
some point.  (It only knows about older
BIOS functions, I suspect, which are incapable
of handling very large disks.)

Still seems to work very nicely if you have
each OS on a separate drive.

It's also somewhat annoying that the OS-BS installer
runs under MSDOS.

Tim




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