Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 01:07:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Alexander Maret <maret@axis.de> Cc: "'Vince Gonzalez'" <vince@nycrc.net>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Why using a DOS tool to customize boot manager? (WAS: RE: boo t ma nager) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990528005902.22452A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <91DA20EC3C3DD211833400A0245A4EA9BA0E3A@erlangen01.axis.de>
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You can try osbsbeta, free and in the tools directory, which can be customized on install; or a payware boot manager like System Commander, which needs to have a dos partition around in which to keep its files. It does other things too like resizing paritions (but not FreeBSD partitions/slices). I think WC CDROM has a special on it if you buy the FreeBSD cdrom set. Partition Magic comes with (or used to come with) the IBM/OS2 boot manager, which requires one of your four partitions on a hard drive. Partition Magic does quite a lot of stuff too. When I was using it, it could only be customized on install, whereas System Commander has all sorts of customization options always available. In fact you can change remotely the system in which to boot, if you have access to your dos partition from the OS you're running. Annelise On Fri, 28 May 1999, Alexander Maret wrote: > Hi, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vince Gonzalez [mailto:vince@nycrc.net] > > Sent: Freitag, 28. Mai 1999 02:24 > > To: Alexander Maret > > Subject: Re: Why using a DOS tool to customize boot manager? (WAS: RE: > > boot ma nager) > > > > > isn't this weired? Why do I have to use a DOS tool to customize my > > > FreeBSD boot manager? I once asked on the list, if there is a > > > possibility to add an entry to the bootmanager manually. I didn't > > > get an answer. Do I also have to use a DOS tool to do this? > > > > > > Why is there no possibility to customize the FreeBSD boot > > manager with > > > FreeBSD? Or is there one I don't know of? > > > > AFAIK, the FreeBSD bootmanager scans the disks in your system > > at every boot. > > It's not really possible to customize it. > > Hmm, is there really absolut no way to influence the detection > of an OS? I'm asking this, because booteasy doesn't recognize > every OS on a system. For example on my laptop I've got a Linux > installation on a logical partition within an extended partition. > As I can't use lilo, because it changes the mapping of the drive > (windows NT doesn't like that) I have to use booteasy. > Unfortunately booteasy doesn't recognize my linux partition > because it's on a logical partition. I alway have to boot DOS to > boot linux (using loadlin) afterwards. > > Alex > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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