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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: MBR recommendation needed
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.153433.22751@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 15:34:33 GMT
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
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- Hi all,
-
- I would like to boot DOS and Linux off the hard drive. I am currently
- using LILO and the MS-DOS MBR with the active partition set to Linux.
- I am looking for an MBR similar to the one that come with Coherent, that
- will boot the active partition by default but allow me to select the boot
- partition if I want to boot DOS. I have seen a few less-flexible MBR's
- that either wait for you to make a selection (no timeout default) or have
- no selection (like the DOS MBR), and I have seen DOS utilities that will
- boot Linux (I don't want to be dependent on DOS), but I haven't quite
- found what I'm looking for. I will, of course, settle for a clone of
- the Coherent MBR if one is available but I'd prefer a user-defined
- timeout period.
-
- The only reason I'm looking for such a thing is because I don't want
- to use a floppy to boot DOS when someone wants to use my machine for
- word processing or games. :-)
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- --
- Jim H.
- *
- * James L. Henrickson
- * ujlh@sunyit.edu "Some day I might have a real .signature!"
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