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Article #3976Re: DUAL BOOT....please help
From: John Saunders
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 00:00
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Neil Davies (brev@adelaide.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
> 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.
But can they boot _DOS_ from an alternate drive? I'm only familiar with
LILO and I don't think it can boot DOS from a second drive. The OS/2
boot manager is able to boot both OS/2 and Linux from a second drive,
so it's in the same boat as LILO as far as capabilities are concerned.
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