ISC dual boot
Brandon Brown
brando at uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu
Wed Mar 20 02:44:28 AEST 1991
rcbarn at rwa.urc.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen) writes:
>A bootselector program enables you to choose at boottime via a menu between
>the partition you want to boot from. This program resides in the sector
>containing the partition table, and replaces the program put there by some
>fdisk program.
>If you aren't an expert in this field, or don't have a local wizard, I
>strongly discourage you to fool around with different fdisk programs or
>bootselectors.
>Anyway, the PD program 'bootsel.zip' at ftp.win.tue.nl works for me
>and many others.
Well, what mechanisms to programs such as these offer for auto-booting
machines, such as after a crash? Is it as brain-dead as the savecore stuff?
I would rather it save the system image (if it can, of course) and then
have the machine boot automatically into Unix...
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