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Date:      Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:19:53 -0400
From:      Dwight Tuinstra <tuinstra@clarkson.edu>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: building kernel in 4.0
Message-ID:  <38EC1069.D383F986@clarkson.edu>
References:  <200004051506.LAA02052@world.std.com>

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Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
[snip]
> This brings me to a question though:
> Is there a boot-manager for *BSD that does *not* update the MBR?
> For example, I want a "default" boot that does *not* "remember"
> the "last OS booted" (& therefore does not update either the MBR
> or other similar/related structures, unless I tell it to :).

The "osbsbeta" boot manager, found in the "tools"
directory, does not update the default to the last
OS booted.  However, I don't know if it leaves the
MBR untouched.  There are some docs for it (either
in the same directory or in one of the subdirectories).

HTH.

  --Dwight Tuinstra
    tuinNOSPAMstra.clarkson.edu


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