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From: explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff)
Subject: Sharing DOS and BSD386 -- a hint
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Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 13:59:13 GMT
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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

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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
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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