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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
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:38:43 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:59:26 -0600
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    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