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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:40:30 -0500
From:      "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        hackers list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?
Message-ID:  <3A5E1A3E.5A17AF9E@mitre.org>
References:  <20010111135851.A16078@luke.immure.com> <20010111120332.D7240@fw.wintelcom.net>

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You might also try xosl (http://www.xosl.org), which has a lot of 
addtional features over both os-bs and booteasy, including an optional
partition manager.  It is also being maintained currently, unlike
both Booteasy and OS-BS.  

Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> * Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> [010111 12:00] wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I installed FreeBSD 4.2-Release on the last 10GB of a 25GB disk.
> > Later I then installed W98SE on the first 15GB of the same disk.
> > Unfortunately, Winblows replaced the boot program (FreeBSD's boot
> > manager) with its own program.  I now need to restore the FreeBSD boot
> > manager (preferably w/o re-installing FreeBSD) on the disk.
> 
> Hmm, no guarantees but you may have luck with OS-BS, it's a bit nicer
> looking than the FreeBSD multi boot program:
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/osbs135.exe

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