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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!civil.utah.edu!match From: match@civil.utah.edu (Marvin Match) Subject: NetBSD co-exist with DOS? Message-ID: <match.19.736464917@civil.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: University of Utah Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 21:35:17 GMT Lines: 29 The Hardware: 386sx-20 AMI bios aha1542b ST1480N VGA NE2000 4 Megs mem. The problem: Made a 110-Meg dos partition, leaving 300-Meg for NetBSD. Loaded DOS fine. Loaded NetBSD fine. NetBSD boots fine. Can't find DOS!! The question: Whence Dos? When I boot DOS from a floppy, fdisk finds only one non-DOS partition of 24-Megs on this 410-Meg drive. OS-BS only finds one 24-meg non-DOS partition. fdisk /mbr is no help. pfdisk is no help. I've gone through this again and again. I've tried creating the partitions manually with pfdisk. I've tried installing 386-bsd and then overwriting it. I've tried low-level formatting the entire disk. I'm convinced that you simply "can't get there from here". Somebody want to prove me wrong? Marvin Match match@sky.civil.utah.edu