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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Jason Chall wrote:
> > My target is definately hda
>
>
> > plus if I boot from the BL floppy and I use CTRL
> > to specify hd root=/dev/hda1 it boots with no
> > complaints.
>
> Ah (a light dawns).  Did you by any chance format
> the harddrive using DrDOS?  I believe DrDOS puts
> bootable DOS on /dev/hda4 (for no decernible reason).

I think it was freedos that put it there.  DRDOS managed to make our 
second partition (DOS D:) hda3 and the third partition (linux) hda2.  But 
hda1 remained DOS C:

> Cheers,
> Steven

Sindi