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From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: multiple bootable partitions
Keywords: Is it possible?
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.203228.29933@uwasa.fi>
Date: 16 Oct 90 20:32:28 GMT
References: <1990Oct14.095603.5272@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1990Oct16.145551.15653@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1990Oct16.145551.15653@ddsw1.MCS.COM> nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn) writes:
>In article <1990Oct14.095603.5272@ecst.csuchico.edu> rreid@csuchico.edu (Ralph Reid) writes:
>>I am currently running MS-DOS 3.3 on a 80386 33 MHz machine.  I would
>>like to add something like UNIX or XENIX to a separate partition on
>>the 360MB hard disk.  I would like to then be able to boot up on
>>either MS-DOS or UNIX.  How do I do it?  Is there any software
>>available which might allow this type of operation?
>
>A good project for the public domain would be a "dummy"
>fdisk partition, consisting only of boot program, which when
>"booted" would ask which partition to boot, and then jump to it;
>after a timeout it could jump to a default partition.
>This would solve a lot of the "active partition" problems
>and should be a feasible and portable project.

It has been done already. Check mfdisk.zoo out. Available
from (chyde.)uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3) at pc/source dir.

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