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From: longshot@ATT1.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU (Erik J. Green)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Boot of A:, switch to C:?
Message-ID: <9012050214.AA02651@att1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU>
Date: 5 Dec 90 02:14:10 GMT
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	In his earlier post, Antonio Pastore(antoniop@cernvax.cern.ch) wrote:
>>In article <F5FAB082BF1F202082@VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU> LONGSHOT@VAX1.MANKATO.M>>SUS.EDU ("Rewind, operator gonna kill 'em with sound") writes:
>>	At the last company I worked at, the way we set up booting from a 
>> selected partition was to run a script under unix that got its redirected
>> input from a file and use it to run UNIX fdisk.  This script would set the
.... my suggestion deleted.....
>Why do you want to make it so difficult? Use one of the multiboot program
>available in the PUBLIC DOMAIN (mine, for example). At boot time simply
....rest of message deleted

Sorry, I couldn't pass this up.  We tried using one of the multiboot programs
available at the time(about a year ago) and It cost me about 9 hours of work 
and the corresponding amount of pay. It seemed to install and run fine, but 
when the system got out to the customer, it crashed the hard drive and took out
both the partitions and all of the customer's data.  I notice that in the 
tail end of your posting you printed a disclaimer as to any damage your 
program may cause.  This is the bottom line on this type of program as far
as I'm concerned.  It's much safer to just use the fdisk program that came 
with your UNIX version than to play with the boot tracks on the drive. 
You can also have the UNIX script that switches partitions run the shutdown
procedure automagically.  This gives you enough time to run off and get a 
snack while your system shuts itself down and reboots to dos. B-)

-Longshot(Erik Green)

longshot@vax1.Mankato.Msus.edu