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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:46:33 +0000
From: Matthias Paul <MPaul AT calderauk DOT com>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com, paul-ma AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Subject: Re: sorry more questions.
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On 97/11/16 18:00:19 Sam asked:

>1.  I know that you need to edit the boot.lst file and put the lines of
>what ever you need for the os your adding to the boot choices.
>But, wich ms. file do you need for dos6.22.
None, because of special assumptions in MS-DOS/PC-DOS 3.3+ these OS are not directly supported by LOADER from the usual menu system. But don t mind, you can still use them, if you assign the "Standard boot sector"
to them. Just boot MS-DOS for example, and SYS c:. Afterwards you have
to reinstall LOADER. After the boot, you can than choose MS-DOS by selecting "standard boot sector" (F1). Please note, that this inconvenience is
not DR s nor Caldera s fault. Because MS-DOS still wants its file to be
at specific locations on the disk, there can be only one MS-DOS/PC-DOS,
Windows95, what else, at a time, whereas there can be up to 20 issues of
OpenDOS, Novell DOS, and DR DOS simultanously (using SYS /DR:ext
for example).

>Next can you have OpenLinux as one of the boot choices?
Using the standard boot sector, you can chain multiple boot mangers, too.
For example, I use the OS/2 boot manager (in a selfcontained partition)
to select between Warp, Linux, and LOADER. If I select LOADER, I can
select from various version of DR DOS, Novell DOS, OpenDOS, and
Multiuser DOS, or the standard boot sector, which brings me to the NT
boot loader, where I can select NT or Windows95. Finally from Windows95
I could select MS-DOS 6.22 (or PC-DOS 7), if I d really want too...

>I thought that ms dos required to have the msio.sys msdos.sys be in the
>first section of the hd.
That is absoletely true (see above), though recent version only need *parts of the IO.SYS file* to be located at a specific area of the disk.

>Are there any docs for the loader prog?
There have been a few at Novell times... 

You can find some additional notes concerning LOADER in 
the README.TXT file of my IBMBIOA3.ZIP package, and also 
in MPDOSTIP.ZIP.

But actually, LOADER /? should tell you everything this is all about...

 Matthias


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