> I see, my apologies. Wonder if there is a utility out that could go in
the
> MBR of HDA and give a boot menu? Show up like disk manager and offer
which
> disk to boot from. Or, maybe you could design a floppy that would do
> exactly that.
There are some... IBM have one with OS/2 (Boot Manager? Only used it for a
day or so...), but I personally prefer LILO (the LInux LOader, which really
is only an option if you have some sort of Linux installation - possible
Tomsrtbt, mounting hda as vfat, creating lilo.conf and running lilo there
might work). It does get tricky though.
> Ah, load win95 on HDA and Dos on HDB then setup a DOS boot floppy with the
> path statement pointing to HDB directories. Put your config.sys and
> Autoexec on that but by pointing all drivers and the path and other TSRs
or
> etc to the Dos drive, then switch to that drive as the last command in
> Autoexec.bat.
Yes, that would work. Might get clumsy as nasty apps find files in the
wrong place, could get around that with ASSIGN C=D. I have my machine set
up as follows:
hda1 - Win98 boot, WinNT bootloader
hda2 - extended partition containing hda5 - Win98 data
hdb1 - OpenDOS 7.02b2, loaded through lilo with the anydos.d loader, which
swaps hda and hdb over, allowing DOS to see drive D: as C: no problem
hdb2 - extended partition containing hdb5 - Slakware Linux
hdb3 - CP/M partition (one track) with the boot sector being a copy of the
Win98 one, so I can bypass the NT loader
hdb4 - Linux swap
hdc - SeedyROM
hdd1 - RedHat Linux (rarely used)
hdd2 - NetWare 5
hdd3 - WinNT 3.51.
LILO manages to boot all of these quite easily.
> If you convert HDB to FAT32 (OSR2 or newer only) then DOS won't read it
and
> won't see it, so won't try to use it.
I occasionally get FAT32 drives appearing in MS-DOS, but they're unreadable
because it doesn't recognise the format.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett
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