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From: gsmith@westnet.com (Greg Smith)
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Subject: Re: Partitioning Woes INFO
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Date: 4 May 1996 17:03:20 GMT
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Raven (jm040795@fhda.edu) wrote:
: Problems                   Cause                    Notes
: Can't boot off of second   unknown
:   drive

Most OSs (DOS and UnixWare for sure) won't boot off the second drive, 
no matter what you do, period.  Linux will, and I've heard NT will as 
well.

My next question for you is what you're using as a boot manager to deal 
with all this.  I've gotten up to 5 OSes simultaneously going with 
freeware OS boot select (there's a copy of it on my WWW page to download), 
which can correctly start up Linux on your second drive.  It includes a 
ton of information in it's documentation on this topic, you're trying to 
reinvent a wheel this program has already built.

The only problem I couldn't solve using just OSBS was getting regular DOS
6.2 and Win 95 to boot seperately without jumping through lots of hoops. I
ended up buying V-Communications System Commander; for a measly $60, it
solved all those problems and has made my life much easier.  It included a
big table in the documetation with all the PC OSes they know of (quite a
few), where you can put their partitions at, and other notes, like what
you're trying to put together.  If you time is worth anything to you I'd
recommend getting a copy.

--
* Greg Smith          gsmith@westnet.com           Baltimore, MD
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