MR> Sorry to waist  some of your time, but if anyone out there has the
 MR> patients, and the time :)  could someone try explaining to me why support
 MR> for another file system could not be built into Dos?  I know there are
 MR> drivers that will allow Dos to read HPFS for example, but what about
 MR> allowing it to boot from an hpfs drive?  This would be increadibly handy.

To do that you'd have to modify the DOS kernel. It's quite different to
boot from a HPFS drive than from a FAT drive...

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