antonyc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Antony Chan) (03/18/91)
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)
ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) (03/18/91)
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).