Re: DUAL BOOT....please help

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From: Matthew Geier
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 00:00

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johns@rd.scitec.com.au (John Saunders) writes:

>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.

 LILO Can boot dos from the 2nd drive. Ive done it. Requires the secondary
boot loader 'any_d.b' which I think installs a 'wrapper' that lies to the
DOS boot loader as it starts running off the disk. Works well.

 Trouble with LILO is I dont think you could install it, with out having
a running Linux system first, so it wont help the orginal poster.

 But it IS possible to boot dos of the 2nd physical disk, if the boot
loader on the 1st physical disk can be set up to do so.

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From: matthew@sleeper.apana.org.au (Matthew Geier)
Subject: Re: DUAL BOOT....please help
Date: 1995/04/12
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