Re: ok, I think I have a valid question now.. ;)

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:32:04AM +0000, Robert de Bath wrote:
> 

> 
> You can get a clue what drive the BIOS has chosen for it by seeing
> what drive letter it's given if you boot DOS off it. If it's C: then
> it's pretending to be a hard drive and probably is drive number 128
> with the other hard drives renumbered to 129 and up.
> 
> If DOS sees it as drive A then the problem may be more subtle such
> as a violently wrong geometry assumption or a very special dos boot
> block (like the ones used to boot CDs without floppy emulation).

Alternatively, for the lazy and inelegant solution: Once you have
gotten it to boot to Mess-DOS, use the instructions I've posted to the
list to boot Tomsrtbt from Mess-DOS.

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