Hi: Most boot loaders will allow you to do this. I like GAG because it is GPL and easy to set up. See http://gag.sourceforge.net for more information. I always have to read the manual to use grub, but it is also capable of doing this. There are many others. Mark

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Subject: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS from secondary HDD
Date: Thu May 15 16:44:15 EDT 2008
From: MegaBrutal
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net;

Hi all,

I've installed FreeDOS a half year ago. I chose the option to update
boot.ini for Windows XP, so the FreeDOS boot sector is stored in
"freedos.bss", and I could chose FreeDOS from Windows XP's boot menu.

Since that, things have changed. I've got a new hard drive, and made
it to be the primary HDD (IDE master), and my old HDD is now the
secondary one (IDE slave). Of course, drive letters have changed. My
old C: drive became J: - then I thought it's ok to add this line to my
actual boot.ini:
J:\FREEDOS.BSS="FreeDOS"

But it doesn't work, FreeDOS won't boot. Well, it would be nice if I
could keep my FreeDOS on the old HDD, and I wouldn't need to reinstall
it to my new one. So I'd like to use my old FreeDOS installation. Any
ideas?

Thanks,
MegaBrutal

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