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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