Partition Schizophrenia Booting DOS with GRUB

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
> I guess it is MY fault for having the temerity to try running a
> multi-partition DOS HD slaved to a Linux-booted HD.
> The only thing GRUB is doing is telling the BIOS that the slave is the
> master, so boot it from its MBR.
> This does not explain why the partitions are duplicated.

Cause DOS is too stupid to know how to interpet the partition table
correctly?

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