Re: DUAL BOOT....please help

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From: Neil Davies
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 00:00

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pchipman wrote:
: In article <3m7231$9eu@rebecca.albany.edu> jfoley@cloud.fulton.albany.edu (Joseph D. Foley) writes:

: >I don't believe DOS can be booted from the second hard disk, even w/
: >something like OS/2's Boot Manager (though OS/2 and Linux aparently can.)

: Ah... I was not aware you could boot off the second hard drive EVER. Or so
: my 91 AMI BIOS believes - I have to disconnect my IDE hard drive to get
: my RLL auto-configuring 20mb Plus Hard Card to boot the system. I have
: tried other IDE drives, and still, whichever one the BIOS calls Drive 1 is
: the one that the BIOS uses for boot.

The OS/2 Boot manager and DOS want to boot disk 1 (or 0 as it should be 
called ) but a number of boot managers can boot  other drives. LILO, 
Coherent Boot Manager and And the FreeBSD can boot alternative drives.

Neil


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Date: 1995/04/11
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