🚀 go-pugleaf

On 8 Apr 1995, Glenn Jayaputera wrote:

> I have 2 hard-disk with a primary dos partition in each of them, I would 
> like to be able to select from which HD should the computer boots up.  
> How can I do that??
> 
> thanks in advance
> GLenn
> 

If you are running DOS 6.0 or above, you are in luck - well, at least not 
as bad off as you were before.

There is a way to change your config.sys on your first partition, to do 
different things dependant on what you want.  This does no actually boot 
off the second partition, but you can make the system boot the way you 
want it, and then can swap to the 2nd partition for what ever you want to do.

I recomment looking at a good DOS book.  Lines simular to the following 
should be in your config.sys

[Menu]
menuitem=STANDARD,Boring normal config.
menuitem=SPECIAL,Do special things.
menuitem=NODEVICE,Supress loading of all device drivers.
menudefault=STANDARD,10    <- 10 Seconds delay of no choice made!
[STANDARD]
DEVICE=C:\SYS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\SYS\ANSI.SYS
etc
etc
[SPECIAL]
LASTDRIVE=Z
BUFFERS=20
FILES=30
<any other bits an pieces>
[NODEVICE]
LASTDRIVE=Z

Thats all that's needed.  All valid commands that are normally in your 
config.sys, are still valid, just in different sections, similar to 
windows *.ini files.

Hope this sort of helps.  If you want more info, mail me.

Justin.