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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:25:56 -0600 (CST)
From: "Paul J. Thompson" <thomppj AT okstate DOT edu>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Can't load dos
In-reply-to: <199701301740.SAA15202@magigimmix.xs4all.nl>
To: Yeep <Yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
Cc: opendos <OPENDOS AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Message-id: <Pine.PMDF.3.91.970130162434.539143224B-100000@vms.ucc.okstate.edu>
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Yeep wrote:

> Has any one solved the: "Can't load DOS"-problem yet?
> For the people who don't know what I'm talking about (or maybe because I'm
> a bit vague :-) )...
> I installed OpenDOS on the firts partition of my second hardisk
> (/dev/hdb1).
> I used "dd" to copy the bootsector to a file and put that file into my
> NT-Bootloader-menu-thingy.
> Oh yeah, I also made the partition bootable.
> But when I boot I get the message: "Can't load DOS".
> There were others who had this problem, is it solved?
> 
> 	Yeep
>

don't know if this is the problem you had, but i use 4DOS and when i 
installed OpenDOS it removed 4DOS.COM from the root directory...

paul

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