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From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
To: <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: [opendos] Grub and OpenDOS
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 23:50:06 -0600
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Thanks to the alternative Web site posted to this mailing list earlier
today, I was able to get the DOD701.EXE file downloaded.

I now have the five floppy set of OpenDOS.  I upgraded my pure MS-DOS 6.2
machine, and it went fine.  I then uninstalled it, and that worked fine too
(although "DR DOS" still lurks around in the uninstall.exe banner).

I then attempted to install OpenDOS to my second IDE drive, hoping to use
grub to multi-boot to both MS-DOS and OpenDOS later on.  OpenDOS happily
allowed me to install itself to the D: drive (reporting that it failed to
save the old boot information, but went ahead and SYSed the drive).

However, when I used grub to try to boot that partition, OpenDOS reported
"Failed to load DOS, press any key...".

Before I go any further, I'd like to hear if what I'm trying to do is at
all possible and makes sense.  (For example, the grub documentation didn't
mention OpenDOS as one of its supported OSs, etc.)

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Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT crl DOT com