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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!tbird.cc.iastate.edu!explorer From: explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff) Subject: Sharing DOS and BSD386 -- a hint Message-ID: <explorer.712850353@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 13:59:13 GMT Lines: 29 I know someone will call me crazy, but this is what I've found out... I have a 1024 track, 8 head, RLL (26 sec/track) drive. When I gave BSD386 the WHOLE drive, it worked perfectly. When I gave MessDOS 5.0 a 1 meg chunk and BSD the rest, bsd would not boot. I installed the os-bs boot manager, gave DOS a generous 2 meg, and set up the rest as a DOS extended partition. I used norton disk editor to change the partition type to A5 and reinstalled BSD. The little sucker worked. I have *no* idea why, but it choose to work that way. I suspect there might be a problem in the disktab finding (or in install's putting) routines. Cheers, --Michael -- -- Michael Graff Iowa State University Computation Center Project Vincent 215 Durham voice: (515) 294-4994 explorer@iastate.edu Ames, IA 50010 fax: (515) 294-1717 gg.mlg@isumvs.bitnet -- -- Michael Graff Iowa State University Computation Center Project Vincent 215 Durham voice: (515) 294-4994 explorer@iastate.edu Ames, IA 50010 fax: (515) 294-1717 gg.mlg@isumvs.bitnet