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- From: /dev/null <alexl@alvarez.COM>
- Subject: Re: SCO Compability with OS/2?
- Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
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- Cc: jbayer@ispi.com
- Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:22:32 GMT
- Message-ID: <9212222222.aa20318@alvarez.alvarez.COM>
- Keywords: SCO ODT OS OS/2
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- Jonathan Bayer writes:
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- .> From: Jonathan Bayer <ispi.com!jbayer@uunet.UU.NET>
- .> Subject: Re: SCO Compability with OS/2?
- .> Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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- .> wolfman@jptcs.COM (wolfman) writes:
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- .> >212 MB IDE HD Partitioned as such:
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- .> > MB Name Activated
- .> > 1 Boot Manager Y
- .> > 60 OS/2 2.0 (no csd) N
- .> > 136 SCO UNIX N
- .> > 15 DOS 5.0 w/csd N
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- .> >If you try to boot unix with the os/2 boot manager you get a boot error and
- .> >have to reboot with another operating system, using fdisk make partition 3
- .> >(unix) activated, and then restart the computer. And after that if you like
- .> >to get back to any of the other two operating systems, you have to use fdisk
- .> >to make partition 1 (boot manager) active again, and reboot.
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- .> This is probably because Unix (and Xenix) requires that it be booted from
- .> an Active partition. The boot manager will start the boot sequence, but
- .> Unix will fail since it is not being booted from the active partition. When
- .> Unix boots it accesses device files to access the hard disk. One of the
- .> device files refers to the active partition, regardless of whether it is
- .> the boot partition or not. Since Unix refers to these device files during
- .> boot the boot operation will fail.
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- .> JB
- .> --
- .> Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
- .> (908) 248-1853 37 Winthrop Rd.
- .> jbayer@ispi.COM Edison, NJ 08817
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- I understand that 40,1 of the major and minor numbers for
- the active partion on the first drive. If I tell UNIX or XENIX to
- go and find "/dev/root" somewhere else it should find it. For
- example the boot manager would run the boot string but
- instead of looking for 40,1 it could look for 40,2. This should
- work I haven't tried it but I was on the phone with someone at
- SCO during a HD crash last week and I was curious so we started
- talking.. HE said that it was possible. Does anyone have any
- clues?????
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