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From: owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
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Subject: Re: boot volume woes...after the floppy, which is the default?
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Date: 13 Aug 90 23:48:34 GMT
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If a hard drive is partitioned with SilverLining (v. 5.x), and more than 
one partition is bootable, the first (alphabetically) partition is indeed 
the one used to boot.

I don't know why Startup Device can't override this, but it can't. If you 
select a partition with Startup Device then run Startup Device again (may 
have to reboot first) you'll find that ALL the bootable partitions of that 
drive are selected. Anybody know if this a problem in SilverLining, or is 
Startup Device bad at handling multiple partitions?

Anyway, the alphabetization feature can be handy. I keep a "pure" system 
(no INITs, no modifications) on one partition and my regular system on 
another. To test for INIT-caused problems, I simply rename one of the 
partitions and reboot to get the "pure" system.

Russell Owen
owen@raven.phys.washington.edu
Astronomy Dept. FM-20
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195