Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:36:19 -0600 (CST)
From: Adrian Oboroc <ash AT cinf DOT usm DOT md>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: System Comander is good !
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> Problem 1:  The boot sector loads the kernel so to boot from the opendos
> kernel, it would have to be called something else instead of MSDOS.SYS and
> IO.SYS.  I assume it will be DRDOS.SYS and DRIO.SYS or OPENDOS.SYS,
> OPENIO.SYS.  However this still leaves the problem of the bootsector
> loading the kernel.  Looks like we're going to be installing LILO or some
> other boot manager.
>
> That brings me to a question I've been wanting to ask now for quite some
> time.  What bootloaders are out there that are better than LILO?  I hate
> LILO because it is too simple, plain and unfriendly.  I'd prefer a WHITE
> on BLUE menu to pop up that lists all installed OS's.  Comments?

Probably best boot manager is System Commander from V Communications -
authors of Sourcer - best x86 disassembler. I use curently v2.24, and
it works flowlessly on my PC with DOS 6.22 / Win95 / OS/2 Warp 4.0 /
WinNT. It automaticly detects new operation system, installed on PC, and
update all changes, with you perform to cfg files of each OS separately.
The only bad thing is that it's not free or shareware. Anyway, I use
pirate copy (same for OSes) - it's normal in my counry, and it works
nice. Send to me a message via e-mail, if you want more information. Also
try your search engine with following keywords: phreak, crack,
insane, underground, warez, and may be you'll find what you are
searching for. Also you can find some usefull addresses in file:
ftp.cdrom.com/incoming/demos/t1-list.txt (dunno, if it's still available,
I downloaded it a month ago).

                        CU, AsH