Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 14:55:31 -0800 From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Message-ID: <38406163.23B94E11@gorean.org> References: <E11jlIP-0008BQ-00@rip.psg.com> <199911051534.HAA02236@dingo.cdrom.com> <E11jlaQ-0008Mz-00@rip.psg.com>
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Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > You misremember; it has to be on the first disk, but it can be in any
> > primary partition there.
>
> doh. thanks. game over.
Actually in the [good|bad] old days of pre-GUI DOS you had to have
something (I'm pretty sure it was command.com) on the first primary
partition, or DOS would pitch a blue hissy fit when you tried to start it
and it couldn't find c:\whatever. I spent many a long hour trying to sort
out dos 6.22, OS/2 Warp and FreeBS 2.1.5 on my little 540 meg hard drive
way back when. I've since given up on OS/2 (sigh) and neatly solved the
multi-os problem with multi-scsi disks. :) The newer versions of DOS (aka
windows 95/8) are more forgiving, even though IIRC the win 98 installer
still tells you flat out that it won't work with a boot selector program if
it detects one.
Doug
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