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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3 (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: HELP! I messed up my boot sector! Date: 1 Dec 92 09:03:29 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 38 Message-ID: <veit.723200609@du9ds3> References: <ByKFGK.AHw@acsu.buffalo.edu> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de In <ByKFGK.AHw@acsu.buffalo.edu> ferrick@acsu.buffalo.edu (Patrick K. Ferrick) writes: >While trying to get 386bsd and DOS to coexist peacefully on my 120Mb Rodime >drive, I accidentally trashed some very important part of my boot sector. >(As in "nothing besides the Norton Utilities can even SEE drive c: :-(" >If a) you are running both 386bsd and DOS, > b) you have a copy of the Norton Utilities >could you please assist me in filling in the right values in the following >partition table? I will be eternally grateful! >Here's what I need: >=========================================================================== > Relative Absolute >System Boot Starting Location Ending Location Sectors Sectors > Side Cyl Sector Side Cyl Sector >------- ----- ---- --- ------ ---- --- ------ -------- -------- >DOS-16 yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? >386bsd no ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? >=========================================================================== >Obviously, some numbers really need filling in! I'd like to use the first >33Mb for DOS, and the rest for 386bsd, btw. >Well, thanks very much in advance... >pat Perhaps, but I also need to know head/track/sectors that are USED by DOS, i.e. the parameters from the BIOS disk entry. Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"