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- From: dulitz@cs.cornell.edu (Dan Dulitz)
- Subject: 386BSD success, but now DOS won't boot off floppy
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.211208.28254@cs.cornell.edu>
- Summary: shutdown -todos won't work either
- Organization: Cornell University CS Dept.
- References: <1992Jul23.200547.22246@cs.rose-hulman.edu> <1992Jul22.165706.17841@lgc.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:12:08 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- Thanks to everyone who made the 0.1 release of 386BSD possible. It
- was worth the wait: robust and full-featured. Kudos to all.
-
- Unfortunately, I've got too much of a good thing! I still need MS-DOG
- occasionally, but it won't boot.
-
- /usr/distbin/shutdown -todos doesn't work. It claims "cannot make
- DOS partition active" or something of the sort. Placing a bootable
- copy of DOS 5.0 in drive A: doesn't work either. The drive light
- turns on for a while and then 386BSD boots off the hard disk.
-
- Tiny 386BSD and the fixit disk both boot correctly off the floppy.
-
- And yes, the DOS partitions (115 Mb primary and 45 Mb extended) were
- fully functional this morning before I installed 386BSD. I used the
- Tiny BSD "install" program; I told it to create a 330 Mb partition for
- BSD on the hard disk. It did: df -k gives 330 Mb total space.
-
- If 386BSD's boot loader won't recognize a DOS disk, IMHO it's broken
- and I will try to fix it. But I don't have source yet, so I would
- appreciate your help.
-
- setup:
- Tandy 4000 motherboard, 386DX-16, no 387, 8 Mb RAM
- Micropolis 1680 660 Mb SCSI disk
- Wangtek 5525ES SCSI tape
- Adaptec 1542B SCSI host adapter
- ET4000 SVGA card
- no Ethernet
- 1.2 Mb and 1.44 Mb floppies
-
- Thanks a lot. What a system, though! This gives me more time to
- play!
- --
-
- Dan Dulitz
- dulitz@cs.cornell.edu
-