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- From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Boot prog which allows OS selection
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.221752.4914@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 22:17:52 GMT
- Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan6.221752.4914
- References: <1ifghrINNp0m@introl.introl.com>
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- Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
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- In article <1ifghrINNp0m@introl.introl.com>, pete@introl.com (Pete Ikusz) writes:
- |> Does a boot program exist which will allow the user to change
- |> the active partition and boot off it. I know there is one
- |> for OS2, but is there a PD version which will work for
- |> linux/dos?
- |>
- |> Thanks,
- |> -Pete
- |> --
- |> -------------------------------------------------------
- |> Pete Ikusz Introl Corporation pete@introl.com
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- I am using mboot. You have to run it first on the DOS partition of your
- hard drive. You can choose the the active partition from choices of four.
- After you can just delete your dos partition like I did.
-
- Mboot is on tsx-11 under pub/linux/GCC/rootdisk. Read mboot's docs for
- details.
-
- H.J.
-