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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: DOS VDM can't see new file in A:
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.184116.14482@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Aug26.051615.2285@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Aug26.053814.13068@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:41:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.053814.13068@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
- >Is there any way to "boot DOS on drive B" instead of A?
- >Is this a limitation which is in OS/2 or in the hardware?
- >I don't mean boot DOS, I mean boot a virtual machine from that disk's boot
- >sector!
-
- Unfortunately not (limitation of the hardware) -- most machines can't
- boot from Drive B. It is a BIOS limitation, meaning it is a DOS
- limitation, meaning OS/2's real DOS sessions can't boot from Drive B
- (except, perhaps, on certain systems which do have the BIOS support).
-
- However, I have used VMDISK on Drive B -- it seems to work just fine
- as the source for the hard disk boot image file.
-
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