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Re: "Universal Boot Initializer" ?



On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, ict@ccess wrote:

On Jan 13, 10:07 pm, Steve Nickolas
<lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
I've seen this title applied to something like what I've seen on a few
disks.  They'll be 13-sector, and have a bootstrap that boots on either a
13 or 16-sector drive.

Anyone know how this could be pulled off, how one could create their own
"universal" disk?

-uso.

Probably both DOS's are on the same disk and you get a choice which
one you want to boot in to.  Same idea as a dual boot DOS 3.3 / PRODOS
disk.

Rob


Hm. I don't think so. I've used actual software like this and it's straight 3.2 (or even 3.1, as in Castle Wolfenstein), apart from having 2 boot sectors.

-uso.