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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:18:06 +0000
From: Charles D Hardman <piuk AT mcmail DOT com>
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DR DOS
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Hi

I noticed your problem.

There are problems with most dos (Dr MS Etc) if you try to boot  them 
from  a partition whose start sector  is further than 2 GB away from the 
beginning of the physical drive. They simply do not recognize the 
partition. I believe that there is a fix for MSdos.

Hope that helps

DH

Teilhard Knight wrote:

>Hi:
>
>I've been trying to install DR DOS in my computer, to coexist with other
>operating systems (WinXP and Linux). However, I have my disk partitioned and
>blank to install DR DOS first of all. I know it cannot boot from a logical
>partition, so I installed it in a primary partition.
>
>Problem is: the system (with only DR DOS installed) wouldn't boot. The only
>thing I could find in a way of help is that there is possibly a conflict in
>memory. I am not knowledgeable of how DOS (or any other OS for that matter)
>handles memory, but I have tried to remove some entries in the config.sys
>file which make me think handle memory and I have had no success.
>
>My config.sys file is:
>
>DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\EMM386.EXE MULTI DPMI=ON FRAME=NONE
>DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\DPMS.EXE
>DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\SETVER.EXE
>SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P
>BREAK=OFF
>BUFFERS=80
>FILES=20
>FCBS=4,4
>FASTOPEN=512
>LASTDRIVE=C
>HISTORY=ON,512,ON
>COUNTRY=3,,C:\DRDOS\COUNTRY.SYS
>DOS=HIGH,UMB
>DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\VDISK.SYS 32736 128 64 /E
>DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,,1)
>DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\ANSI.SYS
>
>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>My autoexec.bat file is:
>
>@ECHO Off
>PATH C:\;C:\DRWDOS;C:\DRDOS
>EMM386 PIC=ON
>DPMI OFF
>KEYB LA+
>VERIFY OFF
>PROMPT [DR-DOS] $P$G
>SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
>IF NOT DIREXIST %TEMP% MD %TEMP%
>SET DRDOSCFG=C:\DRDOS
>MODE CON: CP PREP=((850) C:\DRDOS\EGA.CPI)
>NLSFUNC C:\DRDOS\COUNTRY.SYS
>CHCP 437
>SHARE /L:20
>GRAFTABL 437
>NWCACHE 7670 1024 /LEND=ON /DELAY=OFF
>?"Enable Task Manager (Y/N) ?"TASKMGR
>
>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>
>By the way, I installed DR DOS making a DR DOS boot disk, and then running
>the install.exe from the first installation disk, because the MSDOS 6.22
>startup disks simply couldn't see the partition, and when I started with the
>installation disk 1 the installation just was a fake, it didn't write
>anything in the partition.
>
>I would appreciate any help.
>
>Teilhard.
>
>
>  
>