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Re: Building a multiboot system!

From "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject Re: Building a multiboot system!
Date 2013-12-21 12:18 +0000
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"dg1261" <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> wrote in message 
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> Stanley's right.  DOS doesn't need to be the first partition, but because
> it uses CHS addressing there are restrictions on where it can be placed
> on the disk, so it's best to keep it close to the front.

Another point to the OP: If setting up a machine which can boot to many 
partitions it can become immensely frustrating if there is no way to pass 
data between them. So it can be a good idea to have at least one large 
partition near the beginning of the drive that all OSes can access.

...

> If you don't need direct access to hardware ports on the computer,
> another alternative to multibooting is virtualization (VirtualPC,
> VirtualBox, VMWare, et al).

Good advice, IMHO. Mutliboot may sound fun but it can quickly become 
annoying if there is a need to switch OSes too often.

James

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Building a multiboot system! Patrick Rockwell <prockwell@thegrid.net> - 2013-12-18 20:25 -0800
  Re: Building a multiboot system! JJ <duh@nah.meh> - 2013-12-19 13:01 +0700
    Re: Building a multiboot system! Patrick Rockwell <prockwell@thegrid.net> - 2013-12-19 17:37 -0800
      Re: Building a multiboot system! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-20 02:16 -0500
        Re: Building a multiboot system! "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2013-12-20 11:30 +0000
          Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-12-21 00:59 +0000
            Re: Building a multiboot system! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-12-21 12:18 +0000
              Re: Building a multiboot system! "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2013-12-21 15:11 +0000
              Re: Building a multiboot system! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-21 17:35 -0500
                Re: Building a multiboot system! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-12-21 23:33 +0000
            Re: Building a multiboot system! "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2013-12-21 14:47 +0000
        Re: Building a multiboot system! Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-12-22 15:31 -0500
  Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-12-19 11:29 +0000
    Re: Building a multiboot system! Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2013-12-19 08:10 -0800
      Re: Building a multiboot system! Patrick Rockwell <prockwell@thegrid.net> - 2013-12-19 13:37 -0800
      Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-12-20 06:22 +0000
        Re: Building a multiboot system! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-20 02:16 -0500
          Re: Building a multiboot system! "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2013-12-20 11:15 +0000
          Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-12-21 00:56 +0000
            Re: Building a multiboot system! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-21 01:51 -0500
              Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-12-21 08:54 +0000
                Re: Building a multiboot system! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-12-21 12:26 +0000
              Re: Building a multiboot system! Steph <pas.de.mail@serveur.invalid> - 2013-12-21 15:11 +0000
    Re: Building a multiboot system! Patrick Rockwell <prockwell@thegrid.net> - 2014-02-07 14:15 -0800
      Re: Building a multiboot system! dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2014-02-08 09:41 +0000
  Re: Building a multiboot system! miepbart@gmail.com - 2014-08-17 00:02 -0700

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