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In article <3m5uhp$l95@werple.mira.net.au>,
Glenn Jayaputera <gtj@werple.mira.net.au> 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??
>
I don't believe DOS can be booted from the second hard disk, even w/
something like OS/2's Boot Manager (though OS/2 and Linux aparently can.)
Joseph

In <3m5uhp$l95@werple.mira.net.au>, gtj@werple.mira.net.au (Glenn Jayaputera) writes:
>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??

If you are using something like OS/2's Boot Manager, you might want to make
sure the partition is set to bootable.  I've never tried putting DOS on a second
hard disk.

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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.

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
> 
>
Get OS/2 v.2.0 or later and install bootmanager from the installation 
program. (Can be done without installing OS/2) You have to create a 
primary partition of about 1M in additoin to the partition you already 
have on your first hardisk.