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Hamish Moffatt (moffatt@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au) wrote:
: Bernard Leach (leachbj@aba.net.au) wrote:
: : On 16 Jan 1997, Graeme Woodward wrote:
: : > I also use the OS/2 boot manager.   It is much more user friendly than
: : > Lilo (you just select your OS from a menu using arrow keys, and it
: : > can be set up to auto-boot a default after so many seconds).
: : 
: : However, OS/2 Boot manager requires (or at least it did in 2.1) its
: : own 1mb partition!

: Still does in 4.0. Your point being? On a disk of several Gb (the smallest
: available these days is 1.2Gb), you're hardly going to notice it.

: Also, I believe partitions must be at least one cylinder long,
: which means on a big drive the BM partition may take 2-4mb. Still
: no big deal, although there are ways around it (eg DocsBoot).

I used to use a great little utility called "os-bs" or something like
that. It sounds like it could do everything os/2 boot manager does, except
it fit into the MBR. I'm not sure what the licencing was, but I think it
was shareware.

I don't user it anymore. When all you run is Linux, all you need is LILO.

ABO