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In mail (Wednesday) you write:

>> Hi
>>
>> I noticed your problem.
>>
>> There are problems with most dos (Dr MS Etc) if you try to boot  them
>> from  a partition whose start sector  is further than 2 GB away from the
>> beginning of the physical drive. They simply do not recognize the
>> partition. I believe that there is a fix for MSdos.
>>
>> Hope that helps
>>
>> DH
>
>
> OH, that must be it, then. I also was wondering whether working with a large
> disk could introduce problems. The only thing that occurred to me was to
> hide all partitions except the DOS one. But this is about 36 Gig away from
> the beginning of the physical drive. I have no problem putting it closer to
> the beginning, I have only to re-partition and re-arrange everything. So, I
> think I'll give it a try. But, do you think that the fix for MSDOS would
> work for DR DOS, and where can I find it?

Just leave a cylinder for whatever boot manager you may wind up using 
and then give DR-DOS a primary parition immediately followining that
and no more than 8 gig in size. 

Come to think of it, some boot managers don't need to be at the start
of the HD...

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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