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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:56:26 -0700
From: Dan de Haan <Zeron AT Mindless DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DR-DOS on 2nd HD
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Matthias Paul wrote:

> DR-OpenDOS 7.02 and DR-DOS 7.02 had a provision to actually boot
> out of other physical hard disks than 80h (if you had a modified MBR
> and Boot Sector, that preserved the DL register value), but this has
> been backed out for some compatibility issue on systems with strange
> partitioning schemes. As you can see in the history log DR-DOS 7.03,
> does no longer support this. Even if you load IBMBIO.COM of some
> other disk (by using a boot loader for example), IBMBIO.COM will
> start searching for IBMDOS.COM and [D]CONFIG.SYS on drive 80h,
> looking for a valid C: partition.

I could just use v. 7.02, if I were too, how would I make it boot off of
the second Hard drive (drive d:)  Would I need a boot manager program,
if so which would work best.
 
> With a little bit of thinking about it, I m sure it would be easy
> to reenable this enhancement without introducing other problems,
> but unfortunately I don t know the specific case for why this has
> been backed out.

Perhaps, But I o not have the slighetest idea as how to change any of
this.  For the most part I hope other people already have or will.