Subject: Re: Multiboot w/o sliver partitions
To: Paul Apprich <psapp@terra.cnct.com>
From: Mark Willey <willeyma@expert.cc.purdue.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/01/1996 04:04:53
Paul Apprich writes:
> 
> 
> 	I have the following system:
> 
> 486 dx2 66 w/ 16MB RAM
> hdd0: 244 MB HDD w/ msdos 6.2
> hdd1: 169 MB HDD w/ NetBSD v1.1 (i386)
> 
> 	I would like to keep the disks as they are without having to put 
> 'crawlspace' partitions on hdd 0. In other words, is there a multiboot 
> program that will force the system to boot from the *second* hard drive 
> as if it were the first (read cyl 0 head 0 sector 0 hdd1). I've tried 
> creating a single track partition with some int 13h code to load the MBR 
> from hdd1 and jump to MBR code, but I am getting nowhere fast. Is there a 
> way to tell int 19h from which drive to boot?

I do this exact thing currently with OS-BS.  You want Version 2.0 beta 8,
or later.  I have it somewhere if you want me to make it available.

Mark