how can you choose which hard drive to boot from?

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From: Antony Chan
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 00:56

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i have two operating systems (msdos and unix) that i want to
choose between on boot up.  since i also have two hard drives,
it seems to me that the best way to do it is to have each drive
have one operating system on it.  however, i don't know how 
to tell the computer which drive to boot off of.  i looked
around simtel20 already, and i found something called bootany
that says it'll let you boot off of any partition of a hard drive,
but i dont think it mentions being able to boot off a different
drive all together.  now for the questions:

is there a better/more recent version of bootany or
something similar ?

can bootany handle the second drive, or do i have to partition
the first drive? (experimenting with the hard drive partition
tables makes me nervous)

and if bootany can handle the second drive, how?

thanks,
antony chan (antonyc@cobalt.cco.caltech.edu)

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Subject: how can you choose which hard drive to boot from?
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