Subject: Re: need a multi-disk boot manager
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/12/1997 15:14:45
Brett Lymn wrote
> 
> 
> Folks,
>         I am looking to "polluting" my machine with the evil NT
> Gatesware which presents me with a dilemma.  Currently my Doom
> Operating System is on a separate 1Gig scsi disk and I just boot from
> floppy when I want to use DOS (of course, I have my NetBSD as my first
> scsi disk and hence that boots from from HD :-) Going for NT means
> that my simple DOS scheme will not work, I need some sort of boot
> manager.  I tried using booteasy 1.7 since that claims to support
> multiple disks (actually, it only supports the first 2 disks it finds
> but I can work around this) but it appears that the disk geometry is
> stuffed up and booteasy will not even boot up my NetBSD.
> 
> So, has anyone got any recommendations for a multi-disk boot manager
> that will work on a system with multiple SCSI drives in it?  I am
> trying to avoid repartitioning my first disk because it is a real pain
> in the arse and I would prefer to keep the disk all unix to make my
> source playing easy.

I installed os-bs. It allows you to define multiple boot options and
the default boot partition.

cheerio Berndt
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Name	: Berndt Josef Wulf
E-Mail	: wulf@ping.net.au
Sysinfo	: DEC AXPpci33+, NetBSD-1.2