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Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:29:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gene Buckle <geneb AT deltasoft DOT com>
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Subject: Re: My Drdos 7.03 will not boot.
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> Gene Buckle escreveu:
>>> Nothing directly to do with opendos but still with the plain drdos.
>>> I have on my computer three relative small hard disc. On the first hard 
>>> disc I
>> 
>> Have you tried doing "FDISK /mbr" ?
>
> DrDOS is also very picky about it's partition: it has to be the first 
> partition physicaly on the disk, primary and active.
>
> If not, it will start boot and will fail at the begining of CONFIG.SYS
>
Ahh, ok.  I've not dealt with it in MANY years and the memory fades. :)

g.

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