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To: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
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Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager 
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:14:38 -0500
From: "Clarence Wilkerson, <wilker@math.purdue.edu>" <freebsd@hopf2.math.purdue.edu>
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I have not tried having an extended dos partition 
beyond the limit without an additional driver for the disk.

Unfortunately, I don't have a convenient way to try it.

The part about booting Linux from a small low partition has
been tried with OS/2 Bootmanager, or just using
loadlin15 and having it anywhere ( in my case on a third
drive) has been done and verified.

I've had a tough time getting OS/2 and DOS to allocate
space past 1024. It could be that once these extended
partitions are set up somehow, they can be used by dos.

Best, Clarence