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Dual boot UNIX / Windows XP

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This PC has 2 hard drives, one with UNIX, one with Windows XP Home. I want to dual boot the system by editing the boot.ini file. How please?

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by hal 9000

Well if Unix was installed Last it should have created a Dual Boot option when it installed.

If it wasn't you can use a program like System Commander to create a Dual Boot option which saves you typing script but if you really want to type the script you need to go into the Win. ini file and edit it in Notebook by first deleting the line that tells the unit to go straight to windows and adding some lines that will give you a 1-2 option on the initial boot up screen generally speaking 1 which is the default and if not pushed within a certain amount of time will allow the unit to boot into it's default OS and two being the other OS.

You can do this in VB quite easily with the various values pointing to the Windows or Unix initialization files to load that OS.

Col

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