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Subject: Venix/DOS
Message-ID: <13819@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Nov-83 23:04:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 17 23:04:00 1983
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I've heard that DOS can be told to start at some disk block which is not
zero for its partition.  I've seen that Venix-86 can't (yet).  Tell
Venix you have an ordinary XT, tell DOS that you want to start on some
high-numbered block, either on the main drive (or on a different drive,
if it lets you, but I don't remember seeing anything that said so).  If
all else fails, write a Venix command which reads DOS off the second
disk and does a boot sequence for you.  It should be much easier than
doing it vice versa.  Sorry that this is so general, but it's
directionally accurate, I feel...