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From: piggy@hilbert.cc.utas.edu.au (La Monte Yarroll)
Subject: Re: New to this... Questions
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References: <1992Dec6.232051.14786@pool.info.sunyit.edu> <1992Dec7.014250.29047@tfs.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 00:56:30 GMT
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julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:

>It would theoretically possible to have a version of EZBOOT or
>os-bs that would load the unix bootblocks from the other drive.
>(they replace the standard DOS sector 0 bootblock with something
>a bit more intelligent (e.g. a menu with a timeout))

The COHERENT master boot does exactly that--you should be able to use
it with any other operating system.

At the moment, the only way to buy the master boot program is as part
of COHERENT from Mark Williams Company.

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