Partition Schizophrenia Booting DOS with GRUB

[Leon A. Goldstein]

Net Llama! wrote

> 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?
>

Could be, but the question is - how does smart DOS, that boots perfectly
as a master, suddenly become stupid when it is slaved?
I can expect weird things with DOS sharing a hard drive with other OS's,
but this is a separate drive, with DOS bootloader in its MBR.
It's only association  to the master is the menu.lst.  There are no FAT
partitions on the other drive to confuse it.

--
Leon A. Goldstein

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