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- From: tmh@doppel.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: PBOOT.ZIP (choose an OS to boot on startup)
- Message-ID: <TMH.92Jul29033620@doppel.first.gmd.de>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 01:36:20 GMT
- Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: GMD-FIRST, Berlin
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- Sorry to you folks who tried to download PBOOT.ZIP from /pub/incoming
- at agate.berkeley.edu. I didn't notice that the directory was read
- protected... I tried posting it yesterday, but it turned out to be too
- big (the error message said something else so I didn't try to split it
- then).
-
- To recap: PBOOT.ZIP contains a replacement for the master boot block
- (which in turn contains the partition table). Instead of just booting
- the "active" partition it displays a menu and lets the user choose an
- OS to boot. It doesn't actually care which OS is marked active, but
- beware that some OSs do either only work from the active parititon
- (e.g. ISC) or will happily trash whichever paritition is marked
- active, assuming that that's the one they booted from (dual boot
- option of OS/2 2.0). PBOOT.ZIP comes with a small DOS based
- installation program and the complete source. Another version of the
- boot block lets you patch disk geometry parameters on boot for older
- computers that don't have configurable entries in CMOS (but doesn't
- offer OS selection--there is very little space in the MBR).
-
- PBOOT.ZIP can be downloaded from agate.berkeley.edu (either from
- incoming or elsewhere). I'll try posting it now, too.
-
- Enjoy, Tom
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