On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:52:20 -0800, Art Fore <art.fore@comcast.net> wrote:
We have Suse 9.2 installed on dual bood amd64 system. This has a SATA drive, /dev/sda. A few days after installation, we added a second drive, and IDE drive, dev/hdd. Suse recognized the drive, I mapped it to /windows/DOS. This all works fine.
The only guy here who wants to use dos wants to be able to boot dos from the second drive without going into the BIOS and setting the boot order. I have modified the GRUB list etc via YAST and added the following.
Disk order /dev/sda, /dev/hdd
title MSDOS 6.22 map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) makeactive rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1
When you boot from grub and select MSDOS, you get a flash, then back to grub. It is too fast to read what is on the screen.
In all the examples and configurations I have seen so far (yes, they are for windows), makeactive is the last option, after the chainloader +1. It may not be the solution, but you may give it a try.
Art
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