From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 10:14:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 254B014D0F for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:14:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 269 invoked from network); 1 Dec 1999 18:14:43 -0000 Received: from usercb25.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.150.192) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 1 Dec 1999 18:14:43 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA01613; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:14:35 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:14:34 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: dhuff@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: bootmgr] Message-ID: <19991201181434.B316@marder-1> References: <0.9cc39899.2574ba8f@aol.com> <199911301901.NAA20941@armadillo.itg.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199911301901.NAA20941@armadillo.itg.ti.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 01:01:56PM -0600, David Huff wrote: > > I downloaded the demo version of PM 5.0 and got BootMagic along with it. > > FreeBSD is not on the list of OS's supported in setup. > > Well, just to make it official, here's the response from tech support at > PowerQuest RE: BootMagic and FreeBSD > > "I am sorry but FreeBSD is not one of our currently supported OS's. > it is not supported at this time. > > Thank you for your inquiry. > Maybe this won't help, but the boot mangler that came with PM 3.0, which was actually the one from OS/2, does work if you can find a copy. I had OS/2 on my box when I first started using FreeBSD and successfully added it to boot menu. Unfortunately I can't remember the procedure :( It may be worth trying the one with PM 5.0 as most of them seem to work by simply keeping copies of the boot sector of each partition and loading them dynamically at boot time. Since the boot sector is a mechanism of the PC "standard" the actual OS on a partition should not matter. Guess it just depends on whether you can risk trashing your disk or not. > KyleG " > > oh well... > > Regards, > > David Huff > dhuff@pobox.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message