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From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
To: <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Can't load dos
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:04:47 -0600
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Yeep <Yeep AT xs4all DOT nl> wrote:

>Has any one solved the: "Can't load DOS"-problem yet?
>For the people who don't know what I'm talking about (or maybe because I'm
>a bit vague :-) )...
>I installed OpenDOS on the firts partition of my second hardisk
>(/dev/hdb1).
>I used "dd" to copy the bootsector to a file and put that file into my
>NT-Bootloader-menu-thingy.
>Oh yeah, I also made the partition bootable.
>But when I boot I get the message: "Can't load DOS".
>There were others who had this problem, is it solved?

I reported the problem originally, and Curch confirmed it.  There are two
school of thoughts about this:  One said the "first hard drive" number
(80h) is hard coded in 24h of the boot record, chinging it to (81h) ought
to solve it.  The other said it's deeper (in the IBMBIOS.SYS source).  I
haven't tried either.

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Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT crl DOT com