Re: [TUHS] If not Linux, then what?

On 8/28/2019 6:27 PM, William Pechter wrote: At some point, I had written a boot partition hook to select which partition to boot, and set it as Primary on the fly by modifying the partition table. The comments below are from a precursor to that. Sadly I do not have the source code for the later version where I had added the selection menu and actual partition table update to. Note the reason I started it ;) I know I was dual booting FreeBSD or maybe Consensys (SVR4.2) with DOS at some point, and based on the dates on this source code, it would have been around the second half of 1992. PART.ASM: Title PART - Partition table boot-up program. Comment *         (C) 1992 Kilowatt Computing - Arthur Krewat         Started Feb 2, 1992         Initiated by the Michelangelo Virus of 1/1992 - I figured if I         have a program using sector 0 of the hard drive and something writes         to it, it SHOULD crash - unless the virus is particularly         intelligent. And we all know writers of virii are NOT or else they'd         be doing something INTELLIGENT with their time. * Later on in the file: Partb   Db      00H,"Unknown - empty",0 ;System indicators.         Db      01H,"DOS (12 bit FAT)",0         Db      02H,"XENIX",0         Db      04H,"DOS (16 bit FAT)",0         Db      05H,"DOS - extended partition",0         Db      06H,"DOS 4.0",0         Db      51H,"Ontrack extended partition",0         Db      64H,"Novell",0         Db      75H,"PCIX",0         Db      0DBH,"CP/M",0         Db      0FFH,"BBT",0         Db      0