[PLUG] sw bootloader

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

I have a really crappy compaq that I want to use as a beater to try out
new oses and the like, crashing it as often as possible, etc.

It works great save for one thing. I have to rip out hard drive and drop
it into my server to install anything new, so this puts a damper on
testing things a lot. I can't boot from floppy b/c it's busted and the
replacement floppy drive doesn't work. cdrom is out as this thing can't el
torito--compaq idiots! Anyway, I would like to install a bootloader that
can detect bootable cds much like one would detect partitions and boot
from them. Is there something that can do this?

I tried to dd a beos bootfloppy onto the hard drive and this failed.

I really would like to spend more time crashing new sw rather than
preforming repetitive tasks on old hw.

Fred Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
CCN sysadmin


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