On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:57:00 -0700, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> Someone on another list, mentioned that he thought Caldera DRDOS
> could be installed to boot from a Logical Partition, instead of
> from a Drive 0 Primary partition (aka DRIVE C:).
> hmmm...anyone heard of doing this...???
I'll go try it.
BRB
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YEP, it can be done. (in a "round-about" way)
First I did a "sys d:" to copy the system files to part #5
I then used Gdisk.exe to hide both of the primary partitions.
(part #1 is OpenDos v7.01, part #11 is W98)
Niether Gdisk nor OpenDos Fdisk would set part #3 as bottable.
However, Linux Fdisk did. :))
Here's the result of "a:\gdisk.exe 1 /status" after booting to
partition #3 (which was originally drive D)
Disk Partitions Cylinders Heads Sectors Mbytes
1 11 11166 16 63 5495.8
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
1 H PRI DOS 266.7 FAT16 5%
2 EXT DOS 3882.9 71%
C: 3 A LOG DOS 313.7 FAT16 6%
D: 4 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
E: 5 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
F: 6 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
G: 7 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
H: 8 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
I: 9 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
J: 10 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
11 H PRI DOS WIN_98 1341.4 FAT16 24%
And here it is "back to normal". (Dos-only setup)
Disk Partitions Cylinders Heads Sectors Mbytes
1 11 11166 16 63 5495.8
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
C: 1 A PRI DOS 266.7 FAT16 5%
2 EXT DOS 3882.9 71%
D: 3 LOG DOS 313.7 FAT16 6%
E: 4 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
F: 5 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
G: 6 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
H: 7 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
I: 8 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
J: 9 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
K: 10 LOG DOS 509.8 FAT16 9%
11 H PRI DOS WIN_98 1341.4 FAT16 24%
BTW,
To boot into W98 all I do is...
--- c:\w98.bat (on part #1) ---
gdisk.exe 1 /hide /p:1
gdisk.exe 1 /hide /p:2
gdisk.exe 1 /-hide /p:11
gdisk.exe 1 /act /p:11
reboot.com
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And to boot back into OpenDos...
--- c:\dos.bat (on part #11) ---
gdisk.exe 1 /-hide /p:1
gdisk.exe 1 /-hide /p:2
gdisk.exe 1 /hide /p:11
gdisk.exe 1 /act /p:1
reboot.com
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No "boot manager" needed. ;-)
BTW2,
"Lilo" is in a restorable MBR in the root directory of part #1
"oldmbr.bin" can be restored when needed by OpenDos fdisk.
And then I reboot into OpenLinux v2.3
--
Glenn
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