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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] winnt boot method - hand editing boot.ini
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:59:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209182159.g8ILxQKC041006@orthanc.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:38:43 EDT." <3a2e297c22c3768943684a996b9b90af@plan9.bell-labs.com>

    Russ> I'm sick of configuring things.  I want a boot
    Russ> manager that just says ``here are the partitions i found; pick
    Russ> one to boot.''

Another option is FreeBSD's boot0, which operates exactly as you describe.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.s

--lyndon


  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-18 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-18 21:38 Russ Cox
2002-09-18 21:59 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-19  8:07 Richard Miller
2002-09-19 14:46 ` Jason Gurtz
2002-09-18 20:16 Russ Cox
2002-09-18 20:56 ` Jason Gurtz
2002-09-18 21:26 ` Jack Johnson
2002-09-18 16:56 Joel Salomon

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