Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!att!fang!alfred!tous!tarpit!bilver!bill From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Boot of A:, switch to C:? Message-ID: <1990Dec4.174909.12710@bilver.uucp> Date: 4 Dec 90 17:49:09 GMT References: Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL Lines: 25 In article LONGSHOT@VAX1.MANKATO.MSUS.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 ->active partition to DOS, and call a re-boot(by sending chars to the keyboard ->buffer, I think). We had a batch file under DOS that did pretty much the ->same thing. All we had to do to boot from the other OS was to run the script ->or batch file and we would be up and running. This is a LOT easier than ->trying to boot from a floppy and switch command paths. And a lot more dangerous if you had a machine hiccup or power failure when you were writing to that area of the hard drive. Booting from a floppy with the proper setup to take you to c: and run them is the prudent way of doing things. There are some pd programs that permit multi-boots from a prompt also. Saw something like that in one of the Unix sources areas a couple of month back. You type the os at the boot prompt. eg dos, unix, minix, ??? -- Bill Vermillion - UUCP: uunet!tarpit!bilver!bill : bill@bilver.UUCP