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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!altair.selu.edu!zmw From: zmw@altair.selu.edu (Mike Whisenhunt zmw@selu.edu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: How to use fixit to get DOS and 386BSD on same drive? Message-ID: <1992Oct13.094247.837@altair.selu.edu> Date: 13 Oct 92 09:42:47 -0600 Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University Lines: 25 I'm having the same problem as described below in getting DOS to reside in a 34MB partition and 386BSD v. 0.1 in an 80MB partition on my 120MB Conner Peripherals 120MB drive. When I let the install program use the entire disk everything installs and boots great, but when I make the partitions and format DOS, then install BSD, my AMI 386 goes into a panic loop when I try to boot. I have retrieved and created the fixit diskette, but could someone point me to some documentation or describe how I can use the fixit program to place the disklabel at the proper place within the 80MB partition? Thanks! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mike Whisenhunt |Internet: zmw@selu.edu |How to tell if your VMS System Manager/Postmaster |Phone : (504) 549-3643 |boss has used your Southeastern La. Univ, Box 430 |Fax : (504) 549-5092 |Word Processor? Look Hammond, La 70402 USA |"Wise men still seek Him"|for whiteout on CRT. >I had the same problem on the computer of a friend of mine. He wants to >have DOS and BSD to live on the same disk. So we installed a DOS partition with >fdisk on the fresh low-level formatted disk. Then we boot BSD with the dist.fs >floppy. We told install only to created the BSD partition. We now boot from the >fixit.fs floppy and edit the disklabel. As Bernard mentioned, at this point the >DOS partition has gone. I know knew the problem. The `install' program writes >the disklabel at front of the whole disk and not at the start of the BSD >partition. Editing the disklabel with the fixit.fs floppy now edits >the correct place, the start of the BSD partition.