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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!constellation!apple!agate!ames!olivea!uunet!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!msuinfo!crs.cl.msu.edu!rjs From: rjs@crs.cl.msu.edu (Robert J. Stanton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386BSD BOOT problems partially solved by dualbt43 Keywords: 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Aug9.151645.11810@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 9 Aug 92 15:16:45 GMT Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 33 I have 386BSD installed on the second partition of my system and DOS 5.0 installed on the first partition. I have been having the problem of getting 386BSD to boot. When it does boot, things are relatively ok, but often I have to reset the machine a few times to get it to boot into 386BSD. I used to think that I was finally getting it to boot by booting the fixit disk and shutting down with shutdown -to386bsd, but I have since decided, because that procedure does not work all the time, that it was only working because of the multiple reboots. I am beginning to suspect that my disktab entry needs some revision. I have a Quantum LPS105AT IDE drive. This morning I installed dualbt43 on my hard drive. It is supposed to recognize the existence of multiple operating systems on the hard drive and present a menu allowing the user to choose between OS's. Unfortunately it did not recognize the 386BSD partition and did not present that as a menu option. But the good news is that if I just hit return, it always boots 386BSD without any random errors over 10 trials, as long as the 386BSD partition is the active partition. If I boot into DOS and work there, which I only occasionally do, I run fdisk as the last operation in DOS, and then just hit return when presented with the boot menu from dualbt43. At least I don't have to reset my machine multiple times to get 386BSD to run. dualbt43 is available from archive sites listed on archie