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From: zinzow@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark S. Zinzow)
Subject: Re: 386BSD and DOS partitioning help.
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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:20:09 GMT
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jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones) writes:
>	I have checked through the FAQ and did not see this type of
>thing covered there.  I was hoping someone could outline the steps
>required to get DOS 5.0 and 386BSD to co-exist on the same drive
>without using the standard install procedure.  The setup works fine
>if you want to live with the partitioning scheme established by
>install.  I have not been able to manually disklabel a drive that
>already has a DOS partition, disklabel tends to wipe out the partition info.
>Can this be done?

I too am having trouble with this.  I've wiped and reinstalled DOS and 	
OS/2 several times.  I was hoping to use the OS/2 Bootmanager to control	which os comes up.  Someone posted a note a few weeks back explaining that
the BIOS does geometry translation on drives larger than about 300MB (1024
cylanders) which confuses things.  The thing to do is use your CMOS setup
software to configure the drive for its real geometry.  Then DOS only sees
the first 1024 cyl. of the disk, and you can put 386BSD at the end.  That's
where I am now, but haven't had time to reinstall BSD (last delay was that
my memory died, and I had to wait for new SIMMS which arrived today).
I have a Maxtor LXA535A, and downloaded their low-level format program
and ran it on my disk just to make sure things were ok after changing the
BIOS settings.

This is a rather confusing procedure, esp. since there are no good partitioning
tools that recognize the operating systems involved.