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- Hi there,
-
- Today I read some postings of you trying to have multi-boot partitions
- on your machines. I developed more then a year ago a small utility to
- do the same thing (then, for MS-DOS, Minix and OS/2).
-
- I wrote a new Multi-partition utility that runs under MS-DOS and modifies
- the main hard-disk boot sector for booting multiple operating systems from
- the same hard-disk.
-
- The program will write a new boot sector to the first hard-disk drive that
- prompts for the partition you want to boot from (1-4). To the question
- 'Boot partition (1-4):' you have to answer with the number of the partition
- you want to boot from (1-4).
-
- The program must be compiled as a .COM file (remember exe2bin) and run
- under MS-DOS. When the program is run, it produces a message telling you
- what it is going to do. At this time you can abort it by typing <CTRL-C>
- or type <CR> to allow it to modify the hard-disk.
-
- Before trying to boot from multiple partitions you have to partition your
- hard-disk and put the operating systems on the partitions. I used
- a partitioning utility called "disk manager" from Ontrack Computer Systems.
- There are other utilities available (e.g. SpeedStore) but this one is a
- good one.
-
- After the partitioning, you can run the Multi-partition boot utility
- called "mfdisk" (I started writing it with fdisk in mined and wanted to
- write an fdisk clone but then I found disk manager and ended just with
- whatever is there). After running the utility you are set and ready to go.
-
- Anybody trying this process, please let me know how was it, what type of
- hard-disk was used and if more help is needed.
-
- Have fun...
-
- Motti (Mordehai) Bazar
-
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