TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT TITLE: Select partition to boot from (UnixWare 1.x) DOCUMENT ID: TID300097 DOCUMENT REVISION: B DATE: 25JAN95 ALERT STATUS: Yellow INFORMATION TYPE: Symptom Solution README FOR: BOOTMG PRODUCT and VERSION: UnixWare 1.0 ABSTRACT: The bootmgr file contains bootmgr which allows you to select which kernel you boot from. To use it, copy it to "/stand" directory. When your system is booting up, befor the red UnixWare screen appears, press a key. When prompted for which kernel to boot type "bootmgr" you will be presented with a list of operating systems to boot from. Select the desired OS and you're set. Note that this does not modify your boot block so if you bootup without doing anything, the system comes up like normal. SYMPTOM Boot manager wanted to select OS SOLUTION Apply the bootmgr file. Installation Instructions: DATATYPE: file 1. Download the bootmgr and bootmg.txt files to the /tmp directory on your machine. 2. Read the release notes contained in this file. 3. Now become root, move the file into /stand and press a key before the red UnixWare screen appears to select the OS to boot from. $su #chmod +x /tmp/bootmgr #mv /tmp/bootmgr /stand Solution Specifics The bootmgr file contains bootmgr which allows you to select which kernel you boot from. To use it, copy it to "/stand" directory. When your system is booting up, befor the red UnixWare screen appears, press a key. When prompted for which kernel to boot type "bootmgr" you will be presented with a list of operating systems to boot from. Select the desired OS and you're set. Note that this does not modify your boot block so if you bootup without doing anything, the system comes up like normal.