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Hi there,
Today I read some postings of you trying to have multi-boot partitions
on your machines. I developed more then a year ago a small utility to
do the same thing (then, for MS-DOS, Minix and OS/2).
I wrote a new Multi-partition utility that runs under MS-DOS and modifies
the main hard-disk boot sector for booting multiple operating systems from
the same hard-disk.
The program will write a new boot sector to the first hard-disk drive that
prompts for the partition you want to boot from (1-4). To the question
'Boot partition (1-4):' you have to answer with the number of the partition
you want to boot from (1-4).
The program must be compiled as a .COM file (remember exe2bin) and run
under MS-DOS. When the program is run, it produces a message telling you
what it is going to do. At this time you can abort it by typing <CTRL-C>
or type <CR> to allow it to modify the hard-disk.
Before trying to boot from multiple partitions you have to partition your
hard-disk and put the operating systems on the partitions. I used
a partitioning utility called "disk manager" from Ontrack Computer Systems.
There are other utilities available (e.g. SpeedStore) but this one is a
good one.
After the partitioning, you can run the Multi-partition boot utility
called "mfdisk" (I started writing it with fdisk in mined and wanted to
write an fdisk clone but then I found disk manager and ended just with
whatever is there). After running the utility you are set and ready to go.
Anybody trying this process, please let me know how was it, what type of
hard-disk was used and if more help is needed.
Have fun...
Motti (Mordehai) Bazar
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