Re: Dual boot SCO 5.0.5 & Windows

From: Bob Bailin (72027.3605_at_compuserve.com)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:52:01 GMT

"Ken Murphy" <ken@NOSPAMkmurph.com> wrote in message
news:cv84bh$d3b$1@reader01.news.esat.net...
> Hello
>
> I have SCO Openserver 5.0.5 installed on a second drive in my pc. This is the slave
> drive on the second IDE channel. My dvd drive is the master drive. I have XP installed
> on another drive which is the primary drive on the first IDE channel.
>
> Is it possible to to add something to the boot.ini on XP to allow me to dual boot SCO
> and XP. I know with Linux you can use the dd command to export a copy of the boot sector
> to a file and then add the path to this file in the boot.ini to allow dual booting. (I
> think)
>
> Can something similar be done with SCO to save me having to plug out my XP hard drive
> any time I want to boot SCO.

No. If I remember correctly, Openserver has to be installed on the primary
(boot) hard drive in a system. I assume you've been unplugging the XP
drive in order to make the SCO drive the boot drive. If you leave the
XP drive plugged in and direct the XP loader to boot from a partition
on the 2nd drive, it probably won't work.

You can accomplish what you're already doing without moving cables
around by going into the BIOS setup and making the SCO drive the
1st choice to boot from when you want to run Openserver. On some
Asus motherboards, hitting the ESC key during system boot brings
up a menu of devices to boot from, and you could select the SCO drive
here, also.

Bob

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