From: "jj" To: "Paul W Brannan" Cc: , Subject: Re: Opendos,win95 and NT in one HDD Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 23:18:15 +1200 Message-ID: <01bce9dc$82795d40$401862cb@pc.pcp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00C7_01BCEA41.17AE3D40" Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00C7_01BCEA41.17AE3D40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----Original Message----- From: Paul W Brannan Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Wednesday, November 05, 1997 5:46 PM Subject: Re: Opendos,win95 and NT in one HDD >> > If you want to triple-boot OpenDOS/Win95/NT you'll have problems with Win95 >> > and OpenDOS, as they both assume that the first FAT partition on the disk is >> > drive C:, and insist on being booted from C: - so can't live in seperate >> > partitions without heavy application of black magic. A work-around is to have >> > 1 FAT partition, with OpenDOS on it, then 'upgrade' to Win95, but with the >> > option of dual-booting. Then create your NTFS partition and install NT. >> > You'll have to DUAL-boot between NT and Win95, and then use Win95's 'boot old >> > version of MS-DOS' option to get at OpenDOS. > >I know this doesn't work with the original OpenDOS 7.01. Windows 95 >doesn't think ibmbio.com is valid, so it won't boot it. There is another >option though, which is the one I like to use. It is called grub, for >GRand Unified Bootloader. There are instructions for how to use it in the >OpenDOS faq on www.delorie.com, or you can get instructions that may be a >little easier to follow from my page at >www.musc.edu/~brannanp/null/opendos (though note that you will have to do >a little bit of work... I never did quite perfect the process of >installing grub. Also, there may be a new version of grub available, I >haven't looked). My page is kind of old, as I have pretty much lost >interest in DOS development for the moment... it's a great idea, but there >are other things that are more important. > >> Win95 will boot from d: (at least if c: and d: are partitions on one HD. >> I don't know if it works if they're 2 different physical disks). >> I've got Matthias Paul's updated ibmbio.com to boot from d:, but I >> haven't tried it with standard OpenDOS. However, both OSes will try to >> load c:\config.sys and c:\autoexec.bat. The solution is to put your >> Windows configuration into config.sys and autoexec.bat . Then, put your >> opendos config.sys into dconfig.sys. OpenDOS will load dconfig.sys and >> ignore config.sys. Finally, find the shell= line in dconfig.sys, and add >> /p:odauto.bat . This will cause OpenDOS to run odauto.bat instead of >> autoexec.bat. Finally, put your OpenDOS' autoexec.bat into odauto.bat and >> use your favorite boot manager. > >This is exactly what I did. > >> You can get the alpha version if ibmbio.com from: >> http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/opendeng.html >> >> Evan >> > ------=_NextPart_000_00C7_01BCEA41.17AE3D40 Content-Type: text/plain; name="FAT.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="FAT.txt" Hello,Mark,Dim,David,Evan and all, Thank you very much for your email regarding the Triple-boot in one HD,i will try some of them and see what will happen. Before that,i downloaded opendos in my HD in which already got win95 and winnt4.0,but as soon as finished Od7.02 took over control of Boot sector and could not get back to win95 or NT,then i reinstalled win95,and it scandisked HD during the setup process,and could not get through it ,HD was very noisy,it seemed spining difficult. then i tried to copy some data file into my smaller HD and could not copy successfully,so i took HD to computer shop to swap a new one,they said different Fat system in one HDD can kill the HD,is that right? the new HDD 4.3g is still empty,i am more careful now, i dont know how to put win95,NT,opendos7.02, in OpendosFAQ,it says from win95 can boot to previous dos(opendos),and i tried it ,it didn't work,as win95 search for msdos io files,not ibmbio,i have set bootmulti=1 but not work,so i install win95 first then opendos7.02 and dual-boot is successful,but still thinking of NT.. ------=_NextPart_000_00C7_01BCEA41.17AE3D40--