Dual Hard Drive Sartup

[Guest]

Hi,
I have two hard disks in my machine and I would like to be able to start my
machine using one or the other. One is a DOS startup and the other is a
Windows XP startup. Irrespective of what I do to the BIOS, the machine
always starts with the Windows drive. If I disconnect the DOS drive, the
computer starts happilly in DOS. That's fine but I don't want to keep going
inside the machine to get the DOS drive to work.
Any ideas anybody please?
Thanks in anticipation.
Buster

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,
I have two hard disks in my machine and I would like to be able to start my
machine using one or the other. One is a DOS startup and the other is a
Windows XP startup. Irrespective of what I do to the BIOS, the machine
always starts with the Windows drive. If I disconnect the DOS drive, the
computer starts happilly in DOS. That's fine but I don't want to keep going
inside the machine to get the DOS drive to work.
Any ideas anybody please?
Thanks in anticipation.
Buster

This would be an ideal application for the free boot
loader XOSL. However, you will need to spend a
little time and effort in learning how ti use it.

 

[Guest]

Pegasus,
Wow so quick thanks, now that's what I call service!
Can you tell me where to get XOSL from please?
Cheers

 

[Sleepless in Seattle]

http://www2.arnes.si/~fkomar/xosl.org/

--
Jonah

Pegasus,
Wow so quick thanks, now that's what I call service!
Can you tell me where to get XOSL from please?
Cheers

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that and got it. Looks like I could screw up my machine doing
this lot but I'll back up and give it a go anyway.
It's booting up from two seperate hard drives so hope that's covered.
Cheers
Buster

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Make sure to install XOSL into your existing DOS partition,
but do ***not*** select a dedicated partition. If you do
then you will lose that partition!

After installation, you must do two things:
- Add each OS to the XOSL menu.
- Selectively hide partitions from each other.

When adding the DOS boot (which is probably on disk No. 2),
you must tick a box in XOSL to swap disks.

 

[Plato]

I have two hard disks in my machine and I would like to be able to start my
machine using one or the other. One is a DOS startup and the other is a
Windows XP startup. Irrespective of what I do to the BIOS, the machine
always starts with the Windows drive. If I disconnect the DOS drive, the
computer starts happilly in DOS. That's fine but I don't want to keep going
inside the machine to get the DOS drive to work.

Even if you set the line where the XP drive is to NONE in the bios?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that I'll try!

Make sure to install XOSL into your existing DOS partition,
but do ***not*** select a dedicated partition. If you do
then you will lose that partition!

After installation, you must do two things:
- Add each OS to the XOSL menu.
- Selectively hide partitions from each other.

When adding the DOS boot (which is probably on disk No. 2),
you must tick a box in XOSL to swap disks.

 

[Guest]

Fraid so but that's for trying to help.
Cheers

Even if you set the line where the XP drive is to NONE in the bios?