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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:16:12 +0100
From: Gil Andre <gandre@arkeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting dos hard drive to boot from lilo
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I stand corrected!   <grin>

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 02:10:42 -0700 (MST)
"L. C. Robinson" <lcr@onewest.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Gil Andre wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > This is a limitation of DOS/Windows systems: they can only be
> > booted from the first hard disk of your machine (/dev/hda_).
> 
> But you will observe that she used some lilo trickery to make
> MS-DOS think it was booting from the first drive, by logically
> swapping the drives.  I have used this scheme successfully for
> years, on my own machine (till the drive went flaky -- haven't
> even missed it -- got to where I hated the frustrations that toy
> OS put me through, and almost never booted it anyway).


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Gil Andre -- Technical Writer -- Knox Software
            gandre@arkeia.com
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