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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Booting from 1.44 meg drive
Message-ID: <621.25073BBA@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 89 15:49:08 EDT
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In article <893@cbnewse.ATT.COM>, tsaavik@cbnewse.ATT.COM (bobby.j.lang) writes:
 >I have a 1.44 meg 3 1/2" floppy drive installed in my XT Clone using
 >Western Digital's FOX 4 card. My problem is the machine will not boot
 >from the 1.44 floppy drive. I have Phoenix Bios Ver 2.52 (I think) and
 >MS-DOS 3.3.
 >
 >Any suggestions on how to boot from this drive (recognized as b: by the
 >system) will be greatly appreciated. It is not a major problem but I
 >would like the info anyway.

You can't.  Not with your current set-up, at least.  MS-DOS will only
let you boot off the first floppy drive (A:), or from the partition
designated as the boot partition on the hard drive (C:, or whatever).
You *cannot* boot from the second floppy drive, period.

If you want to boot from the 1.44MB drive, you'll have to make the
system recognize it as drive A:, which will mean making the current
drive A: drive B:.

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