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From:	"Jim Lefavour" <jamesl AT albany DOT net>
To:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 1997 06:33:47 +0000
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Subject:	Re: [opendos] Install on drive other than C:
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I originally installed OpenDOS on the second partition of my first 
(only) hard drive.  It booted up, then locked after the words 
"starting DOS".  I found that OpenDOS refused to boot from any but 
the FIRST partition of the first hard drive, very similar to a 
limitation that I heard M$Win 95 has.  Even using a boot manager 
(grub in this case) had no effect - it seems to be a problem in the 
boot sector that OD installs.  BTW, M$Dos 6.22 does NOT have this 
same limitation - when I switched them, they worked fine, and they 
also booted fine from the same (first) partition (using a boot 
manager).  I did use only primary partitions, also - no extended 
partitions on my HD <g>.  (I originally used FIPS to split my 520 meg 
primary into 2 primary partitions for this experiment).

I hope that this problem can be resolved when the source becomes 
available - I would like to be able to choose my partition for OD, 
too.  And, BTW, neither OD nor M$dos will boot from the second 
(slave) hard drive, AFAIK.

Jim

> On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Jason M. Daniels wrote:
> 
> > If D: is a seperate partition of your first hard drive, make sure you set 
> > that partition active with FDISK.
> 
> It has to be a real partition (primary), not a logical drive.  In most cases 
> the active/bootable/startable primary partition is C: anyway.
> 
> Johnnie Leung
> <jleung AT vcn DOT bc DOT ca>
jamesl AT albany DOT net or http://www.albany.net/~jamesl/
remember always that "God is Love".

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