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[arachne] Re: Multi boot with windows XP

From: Jason Dodd <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:10:24 -0500

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Rob wrote:

I was never able to get OpenDOS or M$DOS, to go anywhere but right next
to the MBR on the first partition, whereas DrDOS, ptsDOS, and FreeDOS
would go anywhere I wanted. The documentation for OpenDOS and M$DOS
even state they have to be next to the MBR. To me this is one of the
biggest advantages of DrDOS over OpenDOS.
Rob

Were you using grub? It does kind of a switch-a-roo and makes it seem like dos is on the first partition no matter where it is. I don't know if other boot loaders do this or not. I could be wrong but I thought the last time I used MS-DOS my setup was pretty much the same as it is now.

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References:
- [arachne] Re: Multi boot with windows XP
  - From: Lester V
- [arachne] Re: Multi boot with windows XP
  - From: Jason Dodd
- [arachne] Re: Multi boot with windows XP
  - From: Rob

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