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- From: thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram)
- Subject: Re: Booting DOS or Unix optionally from the same HD?
- Message-ID: <Bzzss7.M9@aeon.in-berlin.de>
- Organization: Cities in Dust
- References: <BzFnwF.6ox@leo.irv.icl.com> <1992Dec26.231830.2301@weyrich.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:19:19 GMT
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- In <1992Dec26.231830.2301@weyrich.UUCP> orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
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- >In article <BzFnwF.6ox@leo.irv.icl.com> tim@leo.irv.icl.com (Tim Holdener) writes:
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- >>After installing Unix, the system always booted Unix from the
- >>hard disk. The only way I could boot DOS was to place a DOS boot
- >>diskette in the floppy drive. Does anyone know a method of
- >>configuring such a system to allow the option of booting either
- >>Unix or DOS from the same hard disk? I'm sure an appropriate
- >>BIOS would work, but can I buy such a PROM commercially?
-
- >There are a variety of "boot-managers" available, some even public
- >domain. The only one that I have used is the one that comes bundled
-
- Some of them is "os-bs" and you can get it via ftp from
- ftp.prz.tu-berlin.de in /pub/pc/os-bs, it's called os-bs135.exe
- (self-extracting LHA-archiv running under DOS). It has a customizable
- boot menu and time out. It works with different Unix systems, DOS
- and OS/2.
-
- cheers,
- Thomas
-
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- Thomas Wolfram, thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de
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