Darren New wrote:
> Um, no. They behave exactly the opposite. MS's boot sector will boot 
> whatever partition is marked "active".  Remember that MS has been making 
> multiple OSes for a long time. You've always been able to multi-boot off 
> MS operating systems.
> 

Umm. Wait.. Being "allowed" to pick, if I choose to, which OS to boot, 
without having to fiddle with "active" flags, is a bad thing? I must 
admit to being a tad confused here. It sounds like you are suggesting a 
high tech version of the goofy, "I installed a switch, so that before I 
turn the machine on, I can pick if I want the Windows or the Linux HDD 
to be the master!". First thing I thought when I saw it was, "OK, so.. 
How do I set this up so that it uses an electronic switch, so that I can 
simply toggle the switch, while the machine is still running, and have 
it flip the drives during the reboot, when the machine shuts down 
temporarily, before restarting?" The last thing on my mind was, "How do 
I make it harder to flip the switch.", which is what having to directly 
specify "which" partition is active, while, possibly, the wrong OS 
booted in the first place, from a cold start, does to the boot sequence.

I.e., instead of waiting 5 seconds for Grub/Lilo to time out and 
autoboot the default, I have to boot all the way into what ever OS is 
currently "active" before I can tell it I *really* wanted to boot into 
the other one. WTF?


-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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