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List:       openbsd-tech
Subject:    Re: Question about bootmanagers
From:       Constantine Sapuntzakis <csapuntz () stanford ! edu>
Date:       1999-11-30 6:29:27
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Some older versions of BootMagic do not set the %dl register, causing the
OpenBSD boot blocks to fail. This is fixed in BootMagic 1.01.

-Costa

"John B. Hines" <jhines@enteract.com> writes:

> >I'm getting closer to trying my first install of OpenBSD.  I was given a
> >partition manager program called Partition Magic.  (Also, there is
> >something on the CD-ROM called Boot Magic.)  I am just wondering, are
> >these programs, if they are separate of each other, compatible with
> >OpenBSD r2.5?
> 
> Boot Manager works fine, except that you need to run the DOS 
> partition magic program to change the options. And as other have said
> PM doesn't work with OBSD partitions.
> 
> I put a small DOS partition on my OBSD box, which makes it easy to
> run the DOS based setup utilities I have, since it is an older (486)
> box and the stuff isn't PnP. It boots a lot faster than a floppy.

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