From: sdawson@sbgrad8.cs.sunysb.edu (Steven Dawson) Subject: Re: How to boot a SCSI drive (w/ a WD7000 FASST) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:14:19 GMT
In article <1992Sep14.200938.25497@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
>
>I don't know why more people aren't using bootlin, since it has less impact
>on the system than anything else I've seen.
As someone who does use bootlin (note the thinly veiled disguise of the
coming non-Linux-specific question), I would like to poll fellow users
for suggestions of alternatives to BOOT.SYS as the means of selection
from DOS. BOOT.SYS does what I ask of it quite well, but I don't feel
that what I ask it to do (i.e. give me the choice between DOS and Linux)
comes anywhere close to being worth $39, and I don't want to use
unregistered shareware. Could someone suggest one or more reasonable
(and cheaper) alternatives? For the purposes of this question, I'll define
"reasonable" as "doesn't achieve configuration selection by file renaming
and reboot" and "still allows convenient use of bootlin."
Add my plaudits for the contributors to Linux to those of the many other
thrilled and impressed Linux users.
Many thanks,
-Steve Dawson
(sdawson@sbcs.sunysb.edu)