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- From: srh@act.csa.com.au (Simon Haddon)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Boot disk
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 12:04:53 +1000
- Organization: CSC Australia
- Message-ID: <4i5ag5$g7q@magpie.act.csa.com.au>
- References: <3144FCDF.38F3@plink.cityu.edu.hk> <Do3xqn.1HB@iquest.net>
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- In article <Do3xqn.1HB@iquest.net>, Doug Miller <dlmiller@iquest.net> wrote:
- >+
- >+Dear all,
- >+
- >+ Does anyone know how to write a program in C to make a disk that
- >+redirect the boot drive from drive A to drive B when boot time. What is
- >+the algoithm? Or provide the source code for reference.
- >+
- >+Jonathan
-
- >Further, I'm not aware of *any* PC BIOS that supports booting from the B drive. Switching your A and B drives
- >*cannot* be done solely through software, as you must either (1) swap cable connections on the drives, or (2) change
- > [lots snipped]
-
-
- I have a 486DX 2/66) with an AMI BIOS and that does let me swap drive A: and
- B: around so that I can boot of the other drive if required.
-
- Maybe you should have a look in your BIOS to see if you're lucky to have
- that feature
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