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Source: Benedict Chong, comp.os.os2.utilities
Reply-to: bluesky6@ix.netcom.com
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Power Boot 2.0 is out on Friday Oct 24.

It adds more features to the original Power Boot including
1. Password : to prevent someone else from changing the boot defaults
or to boot from another partition. Or, as one user puts it, to prevent
kids from booting other more 'sensitive' operating systems. 

2. Save last boot : if you boot from an extended partition or from a
partition on a hard drive other than the first one, this partition
will become the default partition. Power Boot will always boot this
partition without any user intervention. This is ideal if you have
installed Linux on an extended partition. Or on a drive other than C:

3. Drive swap : if you choose to boot from a partition that is not on
the first hard drive, you can select a mode whereby this hard drive
will be logically swapped with the first one. For example, assume that
you have C: on one drive and D: on a second drive. Booting from D:
will swap the drives so that as far as the operating system is
concerned, D: is now C: and C: is now D:! This works well with MSDOS
or Win95 in safe mode. That means you can still keep that old
MSDOS/Win3.x drive and install a new multi-giga drive with Win95 or
some other 32-bit OS that can only live on the first hard drive.

4. OS/2 boot drive letter : you can choose which drive letter an OS/2
HPFS partition can be  booted with. This overrides the default drive
letter allocation which can change drastically when you move hard
drives around or add partitions. With this feature, we have
successfully booted OS/2 from the second hard drive. 

Power Boot is at http://www.blueskyinnovations.com


Ben

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