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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!not-for-mail From: smm@rodan.UU.NET (Steve Mansfield) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: 386bsd and MSDOS coexisting on separate drives. Date: 24 Aug 1993 17:00:08 -0400 Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <25dvgoINNbn0@rodan.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net I have a question which may or may not have already been covered way too many times already, but here goes anyway: I have a 486SX with two hard drives, on one of which I'd like to keep MSDOS, and on the other, larger one, put BSD386. It is my understanding that there is a way to modify the boot sector/partition table of the primary drive such that when you boot your system, it will prompt you for which OS to boot. How might I go aboutdoing this? I would like to have the DOS drive remain the primary drive for this setup. Are there utilities out there to ftp/buy which will do this for me? Also, it is my understanding that BSD386 ignores the BIOS on the motherboard. Is this true? Steve Mansfield AlterNet Network Staff smm@uunet.uu.net uunet!smm