This is a program, called BOOTEASY, version 1.7. It serves as a replacement for the ordinary master boot. It is very simple in installation, and quite intelligent in handling various types of partitions. BOOTEASY makes possible coexistence of several different operating systems on the same machine. At the boot time the short menu is displayed, and you can choose and load the required OS. You can also boot from second hard disk. Some useful features: 1) Very simple installation. Just call BOOTINST and answer 'yes' to several questions. 2) Saves the copy of original boot sector. You can restore it calling BOOTINST with a parameter - the name of the file with original boot sector. By default this is 'BOOTSAVE.BIN'. 3) If no key is pressed during 5-second timeout, the default OS will boot. 4) The last booted partition is remembered and used as a default. 5) BOOTEASY marks the booted partition as active, which is required by some OS, such as Interactive Unix. 6) If the second hard disk is present, you can boot from it. Changes in version 1.3: - Fixed error with activating loaded partition. Loaded partition was not marked active in partition table. Now it is activated correctly. Changes in version 1.4: - Fixed error with system timer 0 reset. Timer 0 was cleared to zero after boot. Because MSDOS uses it (not RTC!) as the real time value, the time was always 12:00. Now system timer is not cleared. Changes in version 1.5: - Added the possibility to install on the second disk only. Changes in version 1.6: - Added the check of the drive number, got from the BIOS in the DL register. Some BIOSes pass incorect value. Changes in version 1.7: - Partition type names changed from lower case to mixed upper/lower case. - Some program size optimizations added. BOOTEASY have been tested on Interactive Unix SVR3 and SVR4, 386bsd, FreeBSD, BSD/386 (BSDI), MSDOS 3, 4 and 5, MINIX, Xenix, Windows NT, OS/2. Author: Serge Vakulenko,