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From: kokody2@me.utoronto.ca (Gerry Kokodyniak)
Subject: Re: Wanted: boot-switch UNIX/DOS
Message-ID: <90Nov22.145500est.20288@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical Engineering
References: <7221@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Date: 22 Nov 90 19:55:15 GMT

moeller@informatik.uni-kl.de (Henning Moeller AG Hagen) writes:

>Hey there,

>I am looking for a boot-switcher to choose booting from either DOS or UNIX
>partition at startup-time. Unitl now, I have to switch the active partition 
>using fdisk all the time. That's annoying, isn't it?

>Bye,
>     Henning Moeller.

I solve the problem by making the unix partition the active partition and
boot DOS from a floppy. I leave the dos diskette in drive a: and open the
drive door whenever I want to boot up unix. It isn't elegant but it works!

Gerry Kokodyniak


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