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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!paladin.american.edu!fizban.solace.mh.se!vampire.xinit.se!newsfeed.tip.net!usenet From: neil@medcom.se (neil costigan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: BSDI 2.x and NT. duel boot. Date: 3 Oct 1995 16:26:51 GMT Organization: medcom Lines: 38 Message-ID: <44ro8b$snp@stella.tip.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.44.15.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 [posting for a friend] Hi all, ok, first off, we know we should throw NT out the window and start with bsdi only but ... I have a question on setting up a dual-boot system with Windows NT 3.51 and BSD/OS 2.0.1 My system setup is the following: DECPC 450DX2 /w 24 meg RAM and a Seagate ST5850A 850 (815) Mb EIDE HD. The disk is setup to emulate two disks using jumpers on the disk, thus I essentially have 2 hard disks of each 407 Mb, this because my bios can’t handle LBA or other esoteric mapping modes. I have NT installed on disk 0 with the NTFS file system (which appears as HPFS in the DOS FDISK utility) and now I want to install BSD/OS on the ‘second disk’. I have done installations to disk wd1 without ‘co-residency’ as I figure that is for installing on one disk in separated partitions, both using the wd and the bios bootblocks. After running the bootany utility as per the man page I do indeed get a boot selection menu and booting NT works like a charm. Not so BSD/OS, if I use the wd boot blocks I get a message about no disk label being present, and if I use the bios boot blocks it does boot but fails when mounting the root file system with a message about incorrect bad block table. I created an empty bad block table when installing sin ce I believe this disk does bad block mapping internally. Thus, my question in a nutshell, how should I set things up to get this working ? Thank’s for any input ! per n.