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From: kurtk@dino (Kurt Klingbeil)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Wanted: boot-switch UNIX/DOS
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Date: 23 Nov 90 17:27:32 GMT
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From article <90Nov22.145500est.20288@me.utoronto.ca>, by kokody2@me.utoronto.ca (Gerry Kokodyniak):
>>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?
> 
COHERENT from Mark Williams comes with a replacement for sector#1 - the
partition table/partition selector...  It looks at the keyboard just after
trying the floppy and will boot off partition 'n' depending on which numeric
key one has pressed...

One could either buy COHERENT for $99 just for this feature, or hack together
a bit of code based on microsoft's version which currently scans the partition
table to find the bootable entry.

I'll try to throw something together suitable for posting.  (I'll even resist
the urge to scan mwc's code first - for hints and such)