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Article #8428Re: how can you choose which hard drive to boot from?
From: Geraldo Veiga
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 03:21
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 03:21
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In article <1991Mar18.005647.22254@nntp-server.caltech.edu> antonyc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Antony Chan) writes: > >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. I am using pboot which was posted by Thomas Hoberg (tmh%gmdtub@tub.UUCP) to comp.sys.sysv386 (or was it alt.sources?). It has a replacement boot program that is installed in your boot sector. At boot time it locates all partitions in your disks and prints a menu asking which partition to boot from. I have a single hard disk, but according to the documentation it should work with two disks. In my system I can select between MS-DOS 3.3 and ISC 2.2. It works. I am not sure if it would work with other version of DOS (or UNIX) without changes. Another alternative is bootmenu which was posted to comp.sources.misc. (uunet archive has it).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!ilan343 From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: how can you choose which hard drive to boot from? Message-ID: <1991Mar18.032145.11829@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 18 Mar 91 03:21:45 GMT References: <1991Mar18.005647.22254@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19