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From: panek@hp-and.HP.COM (Jon Panek)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: MSDOS Guru needed
Message-ID: <13170001@hp-and.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 90 15:34:49 GMT
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Organization: HP Andover Division (Massachusetts)
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Kevin,

NO, I am not a *real* guru, but I have mucked around a little with boot-
strap stuff.  One of the things that jiggles in the back of my mind is
that the locations of several system files (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS) is
stored correctly in FAT, but the system reads them in using absolute
disk locations, *not* by using the FAT information.  If your UNIX file
doesn't have these system files stored in the locations corresponding
to the correct *absolute* locations, you may get hosed.

Hope this helps..

Jon Panek
HP Andover