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From: smm@rodan.UU.NET (Steve Mansfield)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: 386bsd and MSDOS coexisting on separate drives.
Date: 24 Aug 1993 17:00:08 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA
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I have a question which may or may not have already been covered way too
many times already, but here goes anyway:

I have a 486SX with two hard drives, on one of which I'd like to keep
MSDOS, and on the other, larger one, put BSD386.  It is my understanding
that there is a way to modify the boot sector/partition table of the
primary drive such that when you boot your system, it will prompt you for
which OS to boot.  How might I go aboutdoing this?  I would like to have
the DOS drive remain the primary drive for this setup.  Are there
utilities out there to ftp/buy which will do this for me?

Also, it is my understanding that BSD386 ignores the BIOS on the
motherboard.  Is this true?

Steve Mansfield                   AlterNet Network Staff
smm@uunet.uu.net                  uunet!smm