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Message-Id: <199701271352.AA20495@mail.crl.com>
From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
To: <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Grub and OpenDOS
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 07:53:40 -0600
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Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church <av568 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu> wrote:

>>However, when I used grub to try to boot that partition, OpenDOS reported
>>"Failed to load DOS, press any key...".
>
>Please post your "menu.lst" file. In general, here is how to add an entry 
>for any non-Multiboot-compliant (which is just about all :) operating 
>systems:

I was using the grub floppy:
command> root=(hd1,0)
command> makeactive
command> chainloader=+1
command> boot

I had no problem booting MS-DOS on the first hard drive with the above
(with hd0 instead of hd1).

--
Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT crl DOT com

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