There is an added trick, it made the difference for me:
with GRUB,you can
1) change the active partition before starting it. That is that I use to
select hda1=FreeDOS and hda2=Win98
2) you can swap whole partitions around, this is usefull when you have a
WinXT that was instaled as hda1 and now h
I use GAG for doing this. It's easier to configure than GRUB and will boot
DOS or Windows from any hard disk and partition.
I find it easier to keep each operating system totally separate and not to
modify the Windows boot.ini files. GAG is under the GPL and can be
downloaded as a floppy disk im
GRUB works fine for Linux, FreeDOS and windows from my
experence I can say this. And maybe for others too.
Add this in menu.lst:
title FreeDOS
root (hdx,y)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
And x is hdd number is only one hdd then 0
y is partition number first is 0.
Hi, to have a boot menu between os2, win2k and dos,
you can use the built-in boot menu of win2k. edit
the boot.ini or similar file, you will find howtos
on the internet. You can add a second layer of
selection to select between all oses which share
your fat partition, by adding metakern. It is a
b
Hi Ray,
> And that leaves me needing an OS selector that understands
> 1024\interrupt 13.
I don't know if it does, but did you try "PLoP Bootmanager"?
See: http://www.plop.at/de/bootmanagerdl.html
Norbert.
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Is anyone current on what is available for operating system selection?
For years I used VCom System Commander, up to SC 2000. When that had
trouble with OS/2 on some hardware I went to Acronis OS selector V5. I
now have 8, 9 and 10. They do not seem to understand booting a
partition that is
