Message-Id: <199703051134.GAA00911@keeper.albany.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Jim Lefavour" To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 06:33:47 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: [opendos] Install on drive other than C: Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk 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 . (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 > jamesl AT albany DOT net or http://www.albany.net/~jamesl/ remember always that "God is Love".