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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:51:02 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19970204065220.31a75712@walrus.com>
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To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
From: Bob Schultz <unicorn AT walrus DOT com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] OpenDOS startup files...
Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net

At 08:42 PM 2/3/97 +0000, Jim Lefavour wrote:
>It seems that OpenDOS is hard-coded to look on the C: drive for it's 
>startup files - which would make it impossible to boot from any 
>subsequent partitions (even tho they reside on the same physical 
>drive).
>
>Any way to fix this so that I can multi boot?
>

This is not quite accurate.  It looks in the bootable partition of the first
physical hard disk which doesn't become c: until after dos is loaded.  If
you want to multi-boot get a boot manager.

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