From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 12:36:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA18123 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:36:23 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA17937 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:35:20 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA28483; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:29:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511292029.NAA28483@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: O.k. - boot managers. To: smm@uunet.uu.net (Steve Mansfield) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:29:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Steve Mansfield" at Nov 28, 95 11:24:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1047 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Now, here's my situation. I can boot my system again just fine from BSD or > DOS. I have to use DOS' FDISK to switch active partitions, but it works. > Now, I want to install a boot manager so that I can boot either one without > FDISK. When I tried BOOTEASY, it did the right thing with the DOS drive, > but did the wrong thing with the BSD disk (gave me a menu - even after I > told it to boot FreeBSD, it just gave me another menu...8-). Are there > other boot managers that do the right thing with two disks each with their > own OS on them, or is there simply a good switch to send booteasy that > wasn't evident from the info it came with? The boot manager loads the boot code from the second disk when you tell it to go to the secon disk. So you have a second boot manager. When you select FreeBSD on that, it should boot. Maybe you don't have an MBR/boot manager on the second disk at all? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.