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From: dulitz@cs.cornell.edu (Dan Dulitz)
Subject: 386BSD success, but now DOS won't boot off floppy
Message-ID: <1992Jul23.211208.28254@cs.cornell.edu>
Summary: shutdown -todos won't work either
Organization: Cornell University CS Dept.
References: <1992Jul23.200547.22246@cs.rose-hulman.edu> <1992Jul22.165706.17841@lgc.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:12:08 GMT
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Thanks to everyone who made the 0.1 release of 386BSD possible. It
was worth the wait: robust and full-featured. Kudos to all.
Unfortunately, I've got too much of a good thing! I still need MS-DOG
occasionally, but it won't boot.
/usr/distbin/shutdown -todos doesn't work. It claims "cannot make
DOS partition active" or something of the sort. Placing a bootable
copy of DOS 5.0 in drive A: doesn't work either. The drive light
turns on for a while and then 386BSD boots off the hard disk.
Tiny 386BSD and the fixit disk both boot correctly off the floppy.
And yes, the DOS partitions (115 Mb primary and 45 Mb extended) were
fully functional this morning before I installed 386BSD. I used the
Tiny BSD "install" program; I told it to create a 330 Mb partition for
BSD on the hard disk. It did: df -k gives 330 Mb total space.
If 386BSD's boot loader won't recognize a DOS disk, IMHO it's broken
and I will try to fix it. But I don't have source yet, so I would
appreciate your help.
setup:
Tandy 4000 motherboard, 386DX-16, no 387, 8 Mb RAM
Micropolis 1680 660 Mb SCSI disk
Wangtek 5525ES SCSI tape
Adaptec 1542B SCSI host adapter
ET4000 SVGA card
no Ethernet
1.2 Mb and 1.44 Mb floppies
Thanks a lot. What a system, though! This gives me more time to
play!
--
Dan Dulitz
dulitz@cs.cornell.edu