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From: cmaeda@cs.washington.edu (Chris Maeda)
Subject: dual partition boot block
Message-ID: <1993Dec2.033459.1249@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 03:34:59 GMT
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I have a netbsd and a dos partition on my machine.  Right now I change
active partitions by booting dos from a floppy and running fdisk.  Is
anyone successfully using something like bootany to select partitions
at boot time?

(I'm trying not to use my machine as a guinea pig this time since I've
trashed my boot blocks before and don't want to risk doing it again.)

Thanks,
Chris Maeda