From: bjl@loki.research.ptt.nl (Ben Lippolt) Subject: Re: MBR recommendation needed Date: 7 Sep 1992 10:57:28 GMT
ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
>Hi all,
>I would like to boot DOS and Linux off the hard drive. I am currently
>using LILO and the MS-DOS MBR with the active partition set to Linux.
>I am looking for an MBR similar to the one that come with Coherent, that
>will boot the active partition by default but allow me to select the boot
>partition if I want to boot DOS. I have seen a few less-flexible MBR's
>that either wait for you to make a selection (no timeout default) or have
>no selection (like the DOS MBR), and I have seen DOS utilities that will
>boot Linux (I don't want to be dependent on DOS), but I haven't quite
>found what I'm looking for. I will, of course, settle for a clone of
>the Coherent MBR if one is available but I'd prefer a user-defined
>timeout period.
Take a look at 'pfdisk'. It comes with a MBR (bootactv.bin) which does
exactly what you want. It has a default time-out of 10 seconds and after
that it boot the default partition.
Ben Lippolt.