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From:	"Jim Lefavour" <jamesl AT albany DOT net>
To:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 1997 16:01:58 +0000
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Subject:	Re: [opendos] Install on drive other than C:
Sender:	owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net

> Ah! Can you enlighten me on how to make it boot under NT4.0? I have 
> to set the boot partition to the one that invokes NTLDR via the 
> special boot sector and otherwise contains MS-DOS, but I want opendos 
> in another partition of the first HDD - right now, I boot from 
> floppy, since telling NT to chain to the OD partition boot sector 
> gives me "Cannot load DOS". I presume this is because most boot 
> sectors assume they're being loaded from the partition marked 
> "bootable", and OpenDOS is looking on drive C: where DOS lives as 
> opposed to drive E: where /it/ lives!

As to drive C: versus drive E:, whichever partition (primary) that is 
marked as active, that's the c: drive (if it's on the first hard 
disk).  The others are given letters in order after that one.  So if 
your second primary partition is marked active, and your first is 
not, then the second is loaded as C: and the first is D: (assuming 
that you don't have a second physical drive installed).

Although MSDog will boot from the second or subsequent partition on 
the first hard disk, without locking (at least with 6.22, which I 
have personally used in this manner), OD doesn't.  Not a bit.  It 
will lock up saying "Can't load Dos" unless it is loaded into the 
very first partition - it is a problem in it's boot sector code, 
although I am not able to recognize it more precisely than that.

I hope that this limitation is eliminated in a future release.

Sorry, if this is Unhelpful.

Jim
jamesl AT albany DOT net or http://www.albany.net/~jamesl/
remember always that "God is Love".

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