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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:12696 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2291 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!uhog.mit.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tk2x+ From: Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: DOS and BSD (was: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 16:24:37 -0400 Organization: Freshman, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 9 Message-ID: <Qhd6k5200iM800fqUT@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nm6tb$m6u@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <2nmeb4$ro@menudo.uh.edu> <2nva4n$8t9@hermes.unt.edu> <2o053t$j89@menudo.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po6.andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <2o053t$j89@menudo.uh.edu> i am perpetually trying to get a small DOS partition on with my FreeBSD partition. i have a SCSI disk with Buslog 742A controller. i install a dos partition, then boot up the FreeBSD install disks, which now (1.1B) recognize the dos partition and geometry. i install bsd, and then reboot. neither partition works. i boot dos floppy and install os-bs, and now the dos partition will boot, but it says 'error loading operating system' with BSD. i have tried different combinations, and permutations of this scheme to get it to work but it doesn't. help please.