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dual boot nt and sco

From: Mike Kenyon - David Austin Roses Limited <mike@davidaustinroses.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Dual booting NT and SCO Openserver
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:35:46 +0000
Message-ID: <3A110772.B0BAEB6A@davidaustinroses.co.uk> 

In an article on this newsgroup posted in May, Tzucu told of a way to
dual-boot NT and SCO (of some flavour). The way this was accomplished was
brilliant, take the SCO partition boot sector and copy it onto the NT
partition, then add:

C:\BOOTSECT.SCO="UNIX"

to the bottom of C:\boot.ini. To get the boot partition, they suggest using:

dd if=/dev/hda2 of=bootsect.sco bs=512 count=1

which make sense, apart from the /dev/hda2 bit, whch doesn't exist. I've tried
/dev/hd0[a1-4] to no avail. I haven't tried /dev/hd00 on the assumption this
would give me the master boot record, which shouldn't make any difference
between systems.

I am aware that at the "Boot:" prompt I can boot NT with:

bootos n

where n is the partition number of NT's C:, but it would be more friendly to
do it through NT's boot menu.
-- 
Mike Kenyon <mike@davidaustinroses.co.uk>
I.T. Manager for David Austin Roses Ltd

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