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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (2698)	9/29/1998 12:18:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Motherboard bios must support drive boot selection This option is available on most new motherboards. One can find the info in the mobo manual or by accessing the bios. The methodology for accessing bios varies. On my computer I push DEL shortly after the initiation of the boot sequence. This is operating system independent as it occurs before the OS starts loading. One will see a list of bootable devices once the bios page has loaded. It will vary depending on the bios. One can select the order of the devices. Most default sequences start with the A drive..then CDROM..then the primary harddrive. One only need alter the the primary harddrive selection. The bios in my machine has an option for each of 4 possible harddrive selections. The primary and secondary drives on each of two channels on the IDE controller. Has anybody else had trouble with a primary partition on hard disk drive one no longer being set as an active partition after using the BIOS to boot from a second hard drive? I ran into this problem with an Asus's motherboard. It meant I had to run Fdisk to make the primary partition on drive one active in addition to selecting which drive to boot from with the BIOS to be able to go back and boot from drive one. Nope, never do that though. OS/2 boot manager has served me well for so many years that I wouldn't consider using anything else. OS/2 BM can boot multiple primary paritions and hides and unhides automatically as well as support booting just about any PC os including Netware and Linux. I would recommend if you really gonna try the KOT technique you may to want consider using it. Parition Magic 3 includes this as well as and version of OS/2 1.2 or later. System commander seems to be a waste of money. LILO from linux is too confusing and primitive. Sean

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