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- From: bjl@loki.research.ptt.nl (Ben Lippolt)
- Subject: Re: MBR recommendation needed
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 10:57:28 GMT
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- ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Take a look at 'pfdisk'. It comes with a MBR (bootactv.bin) which does
- exactly what you want. It has a default time-out of 10 seconds and after
- that it boot the default partition.
-
-
- Ben Lippolt.
-