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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> The whole drive can't be used for BSD if there is a boot manager
>> because if the whole drive is used for BSD then there is no space
>> left for the boot manager.  An MSDOS partition shouldn't be necessary

>    How do I tell the boot manager that the DOS partition is on
>another drive?  It never bothers to ask.

It depends on the boot manager.  A good one should allow booting from
all nonempty partitions on all drives.

Bruce