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[arachne] Re: Multi boot with windows XP

From: Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:10:55 -0600 (CST)

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Patrice,
 You can use NTFS. There's no true reason to run NT on
FAT, that I've seen. You'll also need the full 512bytes
of the DOS bootsector, in the root directory of XP. I
maybe wrong about the file extension here, but put it
at 'C:\BOOTSECT.DOS'. Then this in boot.ini at the
end of the file. 'C:\bootsect.dos="Dos"'. I'm not sure
how to do it in DOS/windo$e but to get the bootsector
using a Linux rescue or live disk, do,

'dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/tmp/bootsect.dos bs=1 count=512'

Instead of /dev/hda1, use whatever partition your DOS
slice is, such as hda1, hda2 or hda3. I must say tho,
this method is less preferable than a good bootloader.
Also too, if you use Linux to get the bootsector, it
would be safest to copy it to a DOS floppy first then
transfer it to windo$e.
Rob

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On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, patrice.lemonnier wrote:


Isn't it easier to configure the file boot.ini.
I have try but with a disk formated in fat32.

So you add in  the file boot.ini
c:\  "freedos"
I don't know if we can with a patition formated in NTFS

Patrice LEMONNIER


On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:12:31 -0500 (CDT), Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Jason,
I just used the bootloaders that came with DrDOS7.03 and
ptsDOS, and win2k mainly. I've used Grub quite a few times,
but unlike most people I really don't like it. I prefer others,
but I rarely multiboot anymore. SmartBootManager works well
for me, plus I can use it on a floppy or CD, and it will boot
anything on a computer. Harddrives, floppy, CD, or whatever.
Lilo works great for me usually, or the bootloaders that come
with the BSDs. Still many people swear by Grub.
Rob
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Jason Dodd wrote:

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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.

Jason
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