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Date:	Sat, 1 Nov 2003 21:35:06 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Next Help Desk | SC

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In <200311010542.hA15gs9B027217@smtp.ucsd.edu>, on 10/31/03
at 09:43 PM, sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro) said:

>If I'm not mistaken, you can set SC to boot to Boot Manager (Boot Manager
>is one of the boot options), and then tell Boot Manager where to find
>eCS. You can't boot directly to eCS with SC unless eCS is on Drive C.

This will sorta work. The only limit is you will not be able to to boot
from above the 1024 cylinder limit. This requires that the installed MBR
supports stuffing the I13X code into memory at 3000:0. The rest of the
boot code chain looks for this code rather than redoing the I13X detection
logic.

Regards,

Steven

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