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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Installing on second drive Date: 27 Oct 1994 12:14:46 -0500 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 9 Message-ID: <38on66$fsi@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <38m3vs$cmj@Mars.mcs.com> <38lsit$dsr@reznor.larc.nasa.gov> <38nbhk$mcr@news.ysu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com To do this you need the some sort of boot manager program. And not the bloated piece of junk that comes with OS/2 either. Mark Williams wrote one that fits in the 446 bytes before the partition table. This ships with Coherent. (No comments I used to work there). Last time I checked the standard DOS boot script couldn't boot from BIOS Drive #1 only #0 no matter what the drive type is set to in the BIOS. -Chris