moeller@informatik.uni-kl.de (Henning Moeller AG Hagen) (11/22/90)
Hey there,
I am looking for a boot-switcher to choose booting from either DOS or UNIX
partition at startup-time. Unitl now, I have to switch the active partition
using fdisk all the time. That's annoying, isn't it?
Bye,
Henning Moeller.kokody2@me.utoronto.ca (Gerry Kokodyniak) (11/23/90)
moeller@informatik.uni-kl.de (Henning Moeller AG Hagen) writes: >Hey there, >I am looking for a boot-switcher to choose booting from either DOS or UNIX >partition at startup-time. Unitl now, I have to switch the active partition >using fdisk all the time. That's annoying, isn't it? >Bye, > Henning Moeller. I solve the problem by making the unix partition the active partition and boot DOS from a floppy. I leave the dos diskette in drive a: and open the drive door whenever I want to boot up unix. It isn't elegant but it works! Gerry Kokodyniak Gerry Kokodyniak, Ph.D. Student Department of Mechanical Engineering kokody2@me.toronto.edu University of Toronto kokody2@me.utoronto.ca Structural Integrity Fatigue and kokody2@ME.UTORONTO.BITNET Fracture Research Laboratory {linus,allegra,decvax,floyd}!utcsri!me!kokody2 (416) 978-6853
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (11/23/90)
In article <7221@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> moeller@informatik.uni-kl.de (Henning Moeller AG Hagen) writes: | I am looking for a boot-switcher to choose booting from either DOS or UNIX | partition at startup-time. Unitl now, I have to switch the active partition | using fdisk all the time. That's annoying, isn't it? This is a "quality of implementation" issue in the UNIX. The SCO variants and Dell V.4 give that option. I would like to see a program for DOS which does the same thing, since some UNIX vendors don't have it. You find it and I'll post it. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) (11/23/90)
When I had a Xenix/DOS system, I wrote batch files (for DOS) and scripts
(for Xenix) that redirected input into fdisk, thereby automating going
back and forth between them. This is no great trick; you can
redirect input into fdisk or its analogues under virtually every
version of PC Unix.
For xenix in particular, you can always leave the Xenix partition
active and type 'dos' at the colon prompt when you turn your machine
on. This is a little stub loader that boots the DOS partition.
I would read the manuals for your Unix flavor; or call tech support --
this is such a universal problem, the vendor may already supply a
solution.
Kent Williams --- williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
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"This isn't heaven, ... this is Cleveland" - Harry Allard, in "The Stupids Die"dionj@netcom.UUCP (Dion Johnson) (11/24/90)
From article <7221@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de-, by moeller@informatik.uni-kl.de (Henning Moeller AG Hagen): - Hey there, - I am looking for a boot-switcher to choose booting from either DOS or UNIX - partition at startup-time. Unitl now, I have to switch the active partition - using fdisk all the time. That's annoying, isn't it? - Bye, - Henning Moeller. With SCO UNIX and XENIX you can set up the SCO OS as active partition, and at the SCO boot prompt, enter either "unix" or "dos" and it will then proceed to boot the selected system for you. -- Dion L. Johnson -- the material above is my personal opinion, and has no official sanction or relevance to any corporate position or policies of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
kurtk@dino (Kurt Klingbeil) (11/24/90)
From article <90Nov22.145500est.20288@me.utoronto.ca>, by kokody2@me.utoronto.ca (Gerry Kokodyniak): >>I am looking for a boot-switcher to choose booting from either DOS or UNIX >>partition at startup-time. Unitl now, I have to switch the active partition >>using fdisk all the time. That's annoying, isn't it? > COHERENT from Mark Williams comes with a replacement for sector#1 - the partition table/partition selector... It looks at the keyboard just after trying the floppy and will boot off partition 'n' depending on which numeric key one has pressed... One could either buy COHERENT for $99 just for this feature, or hack together a bit of code based on microsoft's version which currently scans the partition table to find the bootable entry. I'll try to throw something together suitable for posting. (I'll even resist the urge to scan mwc's code first - for hints and such)
del@fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) (11/26/90)
In article <2347@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >In article <7221@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> moeller@informatik.uni-kl.de (Henning Moeller AG Hagen) writes: > >| I am looking for a boot-switcher to choose booting from either DOS or UNIX ..... > This is a "quality of implementation" issue in the UNIX. The SCO ..... > You find it and I'll post it. Ok, I have this running on my 386 running Unix/DOS. It is a boot sector replacement that allows you to choose between dos and unix at boot time. There are two versions, because if you use one of the partition managers (such as Disk Manager) they use part of the boot sector and must not be stomped on. The difference in the two versions is that one has a menu and allows unattended auto-boot of the desired partition. The other one cannot auto-boot, there must always be an operator to select the partition. The program allows you to save your existing boot sector and try either of the programs. If there is a problem with the auto-boot version for example, you can re-load without losing your partitions. This program runs under Unix (if you haven't got Unix, you don't really need it, eh?), is in source form. I *really* appreciate having it. I don't know where the appropriate place to post it would be: since it runs on Unix, and isn't binary, c.b.i.p. seems like a strange place to put it. Since it is only usefull if you are running multiple OS, putting it in c.s.u. doesn't seem right either. I got it out of comp.unix.sysv386 a month or so ago. If I got it off the net, is it fair to put it back on the net without checking with the author? Give feedback, and I will do what seems appropriate. -- del AKA Erik Lindberg uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del Who is John Galt?
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (11/28/90)
In article <797@fnx.UUCP> del@fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) writes: | This program runs under Unix (if you haven't got Unix, you don't really | need it, eh?), is in source form. It might be that people would run both DOS and the "half an operating system" or something else other than unix. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
blue@techunix.BITNET (Baruch Cochavy) (12/01/90)
I recall a program called MFBOOT that appeared in MINIX group some time
ago, that enabled selection of the boot partition. I can dig up my
archive if needed, or better, maybe the original post can be located at
the minix archive site.
Baruch
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