Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Will FreeDOS work from a primary slave partition?

2004-08-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10--2004 02:33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA you can do even more: with a boot loader (lilo, grub, WinXP one...) EA you can boot FreeDOS from any partition on any sane int 13h device EA which is in FAT12/16/32 format. HOWEVER, the kernel will always search EA

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Will FreeDOS work from a primary slave partition?

2004-08-10 Thread Bernd Blaauw
I remember instances with the PowerQuest BootMagic program (a bootloader) where problems occurred. You could set multiple primary partitions active. Disk1, multiple primary partitions, FAT filesystem. Say primary partition 2 contains MSDOS..but..you also make primary partition 1 visible. In that

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Will FreeDOS work from a primary slave partition?

2004-08-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10--2004 16:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BB I remember instances with the PowerQuest BootMagic program (a bootloader) BB where problems occurred. You could set multiple primary partitions active. BB Disk1, multiple primary partitions, FAT filesystem.

[Freedos-user] Re: Will FreeDOS work from a primary slave partition?

2004-08-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Arkady, you can do even more: with a boot loader (lilo, grub, WinXP one...) you can boot FreeDOS from any partition on any sane int 13h device which is in FAT12/16/32 format. HOWEVER, the kernel will always search the config file on A: (if booted from ANY floppy) or C: (if booted from ANY