Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!becker!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!smosjc!richard
From: richard@smosjc.UUCP (Richard Asano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is it possible to boot from drive B?
Summary: You can boot from drive B:
Message-ID: <297@smosjc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 90 01:10:14 GMT
References: <25782@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: S-MOS Systems, San Jose, Ca., USA
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In article <25782@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, ejost@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Ernest J. Obusek) writes:
> 
> My PC has 2 floppy drives.  A is a 5.25" 1.2M and B is a 3.5" 1.44M.
> Is there some way in software to get the machine to boot from drive B?
> I want to do this because I have Minix on 3.5" disks and need to boot with
> them to get Minix running.

It took me a while to find it, but here it is.  There is a software solution
to booting from drive B:.

According the the Advisor in PC Magazine April 10, 1990:
..... your software option is B: Boot! ($19.90 plus $2 shipping and handling:
YWSoft, P.O. Box 2231, Bloomington, IN 47401; (812) 857-4772).

  You stick the B:Boot! disk into drive A: and bootable DOS diskette into
drive B: and reboot the computer.  B:Boot! forces the machine to boot from
the B: drvie, and from then on the machine recognizes the two drives as
reversed.  B:Boot! is the only way to go if your games require that you
boot from the game diskette.

I have not personnally tried this program.  I have only copied this text
from PC Magazine (without their permission).

Richard Asano
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