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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: 2.05R panics on boot
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
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> > * If I use Ontrack DM 6.03a and set the DOS partition active (I don't 
> > know why it became inactive), the system prompts for F1-Disk 1 and 
> > F5-Disk 2.  But at that prompt, if I choose F1, I get DOS.  And if I 
> > choose F5, I also get DOS (so they are still booting from wd0 which is my 
> > DOS drive).
> 
> This smells _awfully_ like you have DM coming in too early and trying to 
> be "smart".

Well, it's allowed to do that.  It *is* smart.  8^).

What it sounds more like is the boot manager being written on top of DM
instead of being smart (like *it* should) and getting written to the
secondary MBR that DM causes to exist following it.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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