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BOOT
BOOT will cause the specified partition to be booted from the boot fixed disk.
Partitions 1 to 4 may be specified or a name of a partition type may be
requested. If a partition is not specified or is incorrect, a table of partition
information will be displayed.
BOOT p
p is the partition number (1-4) or a partition type name such as DOS12, DOS16,
or XENIX. If less than 5 characters are given, only that many characters must
match. If blanks must be included in the type name, enclose the type name in
single or double quotes (e.g., "BT C" or 'BT C'). If the first character of the
type name is a digit from 1 to 4, enclose the name in quotes.
SHAREWARE
BOOT and its related products DISK, DSKSET, DSKDRV, DXTSET, and DXTDRV are
shareware. If you decide to use them after a reasonable trial period (1 month),
you are obligated to pay for them. The fee for continued use is $10. For this,
you may use the products indefinitely and I will send you notice of any updates
for one year. For $25, I will send you the source code immediately and will
send you any updates for one year. These fees apply to any use of the products
on a single computer including government agency and commercial use. Volume
discounts and site licenses are available to reduce the cost for large users.
Send the fees and any inquiries to:
Ronald Q. Smith
11 Black Oak Road
North Oaks, Mn. 55127-6204
You may also contact me via CompuServ mail at userid 71620,514. I will be
happy to respond to any problems and suggestions for future capabilities.
USING BOOT
BOOT is most often used from the command line to switch to a different operating
system. The use of operating system names is the safest mechanism as a mis-
typeing will only result in an error message. Mis-typeing a partition number
could result in booting or attempting to boot a partition that you don't want.
BOOT will detect attempts to boot extended DOS partitions and empty partitions
and refuse to do so. However, for other partition types, BOOT does not know
whether they contain operating systems and it will go ahead and try to boot
them. This could result in a hung system. If that happens boot from a floppy
disk and run BOOT specifying your DOS partition to restore it to a bootable
state.
BOOT allows you to specify only the first few characters of a partition name.
If multiple partitions match those characters, BOOT will refuse to perform a
boot operation and will display the partition table. However, you will often
find BOOT DOS or even BOOT D convenient and it is safer than booting a
partition number.
You should run BOOT once with no parameters on the command line to see that it
correctly recognizes your disk and the partition table format. Some kinds of
PC security mechanisms (such as PC VAULT) encrypt the partition table and may
keep BOOT from working. Once you see what your partition table looks like,
you will know what to specify as a parameter to BOOT when you want to force a
boot operation.