Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?
I've recently switched to Smart Boot Manager which I noticed on freshmeat awhile ago. You can find it at http://www.gnuchina.org/~suzhe/ I found it easiest to download the DOS .exe and put it on a floppy and install it that way. For fitting in the boot block (no seperate partition required) it has quite a number of features. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?
Bob Willcox wrote: Well, ob-bs didn't work either. I went to the referenced site for XOSL and it certainly looked interesting...but was way more than I was looking for at this time (I was happy with the default FreeBSD installed boot manager before W98 trashed it and I certainly didn't want to create partion for it...which seemed to be required). On the XOSL web site I found a refernence to the "Ranish Partition Manager" which I wound up installing and it worked for me. :-) FreeBSD boot manager is probably installable by boot0cfg. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:53:42PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Bob Willcox wrote: Well, ob-bs didn't work either. I went to the referenced site for XOSL and it certainly looked interesting...but was way more than I was looking for at this time (I was happy with the default FreeBSD installed boot manager before W98 trashed it and I certainly didn't want to create partion for it...which seemed to be required). On the XOSL web site I found a refernence to the "Ranish Partition Manager" which I wound up installing and it worked for me. :-) FreeBSD boot manager is probably installable by boot0cfg. Ah Ha! That does look like it. I'll have to give it a try. I prefer the standard FreeBSD boot manager as it displays the partition type for the user to see and defaults to boot the last partition booted (really handy with Windoze...as you get to do it so often). Thanks, Bob -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki -- Bob Willcox There's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 [EMAIL PROTECTED] architecture that allows you to install Windows. Austin, TX -- Matthew D. Fuller To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?
Bob Willcox wrote: Well, ob-bs didn't work either. I went to the referenced site for XOSL and it certainly looked interesting...but was way more than I was looking for at this time (I was happy with the default FreeBSD installed boot manager before W98 trashed it and I certainly didn't want to create partion for it...which seemed to be required). On the XOSL web site I found a refernence to the "Ranish Partition Manager" which I wound up installing and it worked for me. :-) Good to hear. BTW, xosl will also install on your Win98 partition, so you don't have to make a special partition just for it. -- _ __ ___ ___ __ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/\_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?
Hi All, I installed FreeBSD 4.2-Release on the last 10GB of a 25GB disk. Later I then installed W98SE on the first 15GB of the same disk. Unfortunately, Winblows replaced the boot program (FreeBSD's boot manager) with its own program. I now need to restore the FreeBSD boot manager (preferably w/o re-installing FreeBSD) on the disk. Note that prior to insalling W98, FreeBSD happily booted of of the second partition (by pressing F2 at the prompt). I already did install the version of the boot program found in the tools directory on the FreeBSD 4.2 CDROM, but it appears to be an older version (doesn't recognize the W98 FAT32 partition) that refuses to boot the FreeBSD partition (because it starts 15GB from the front of the disk, perhaps?). I know there _must_ be a newer version of this program somehwere (before I installed W98 it was on my disk)! Anybody able to give me any pointers to where? Thanks, Bob -- Bob Willcox There's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 [EMAIL PROTECTED] architecture that allows you to install Windows. Austin, TX -- Matthew D. Fuller To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?
* Bob Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010111 12:00] wrote: Hi All, I installed FreeBSD 4.2-Release on the last 10GB of a 25GB disk. Later I then installed W98SE on the first 15GB of the same disk. Unfortunately, Winblows replaced the boot program (FreeBSD's boot manager) with its own program. I now need to restore the FreeBSD boot manager (preferably w/o re-installing FreeBSD) on the disk. Hmm, no guarantees but you may have luck with OS-BS, it's a bit nicer looking than the FreeBSD multi boot program: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/osbs135.exe -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?
You might also try xosl (http://www.xosl.org), which has a lot of addtional features over both os-bs and booteasy, including an optional partition manager. It is also being maintained currently, unlike both Booteasy and OS-BS. Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Bob Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010111 12:00] wrote: Hi All, I installed FreeBSD 4.2-Release on the last 10GB of a 25GB disk. Later I then installed W98SE on the first 15GB of the same disk. Unfortunately, Winblows replaced the boot program (FreeBSD's boot manager) with its own program. I now need to restore the FreeBSD boot manager (preferably w/o re-installing FreeBSD) on the disk. Hmm, no guarantees but you may have luck with OS-BS, it's a bit nicer looking than the FreeBSD multi boot program: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/osbs135.exe -- _ __ ___ ___ __ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/\_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?
Well, ob-bs didn't work either. I went to the referenced site for XOSL and it certainly looked interesting...but was way more than I was looking for at this time (I was happy with the default FreeBSD installed boot manager before W98 trashed it and I certainly didn't want to create partion for it...which seemed to be required). On the XOSL web site I found a refernence to the "Ranish Partition Manager" which I wound up installing and it worked for me. :-) Thanks, Bob On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:40:30PM -0500, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: You might also try xosl (http://www.xosl.org), which has a lot of addtional features over both os-bs and booteasy, including an optional partition manager. It is also being maintained currently, unlike both Booteasy and OS-BS. Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Bob Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010111 12:00] wrote: Hi All, I installed FreeBSD 4.2-Release on the last 10GB of a 25GB disk. Later I then installed W98SE on the first 15GB of the same disk. Unfortunately, Winblows replaced the boot program (FreeBSD's boot manager) with its own program. I now need to restore the FreeBSD boot manager (preferably w/o re-installing FreeBSD) on the disk. Hmm, no guarantees but you may have luck with OS-BS, it's a bit nicer looking than the FreeBSD multi boot program: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/osbs135.exe -- _ __ ___ ___ __ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/\_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Bob Willcox There's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 [EMAIL PROTECTED] architecture that allows you to install Windows. Austin, TX -- Matthew D. Fuller To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:03:18PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:06:53PM -0600, Bob Willcox wrote: Well, ob-bs didn't work either. I went to the referenced site for The 1.35 version doesn't for me either. Can you the the "2.08 beta" version? Also at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/. BTW, you can get the old F1/F2/etc.. thing back by using ?booteasy? also in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/. No, the os-bs that I tried was "2.08 beta". Also, the version of the standard FreeBSD boot manager at the above url appears to be the older one that doesn't work either (same timestamps and sizes). I suspect that the problem is that the older boot managers can't boot partitions beyond 8GB on the disk. Bob -- Bob Willcox There's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 [EMAIL PROTECTED] architecture that allows you to install Windows. Austin, TX -- Matthew D. Fuller To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
