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From: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Choosing DOS or BSD at boot time?
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:47:50 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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Message-ID: <veit.724430870@du9ds3>
References: <ali.724425416@barney>
Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de
Keywords: BSD,  DOS

In <ali.724425416@barney> ali@cs.city.ac.uk ( Ali Syed) writes:



>Hi,


>I've MSDOS-5 and BSD Installed on my Hard-disc, the first 120MB for BSD and the 
>remaining 80MB for DOS.  When I switch the PC on, the BSD boots ok. However, 
>if I want to switch to DOS, the 'shutdown -todos' fails. I've tried using 
>the 'OS-BS' program,  but that doesn't work either - choosing  DOS is ok, but
>loops if I choose BSD.

>Any suggestions as to how I can easily choose either DOS or BSD at boot time?


>Thanks,

>Ali Syed	                          Email: ali@cs.city.ac.uk 
>City University, London, UK.              Fax: +44 71 477 8587

Did you see my remark on os-bs and codrv some hours ago? Did you try to
select 386bsd as default, and let it time out (without pressing any key)?
Does 386bsd now boot fine? If so, you found the bug in os-bs, I already 
mentioned. Otherwise, you might have still a bug in the kernel ;-)

Holger
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