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- From: jeff@samantha.chi.il.us (Jeffrey K. Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Multi boot
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.074209.1208@samantha.chi.il.us>
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- Organization: JBC Associates
- References: <1993Jan4.015620.16920@sun490.fdu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:42:09 GMT
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- In <1993Jan4.015620.16920@sun490.fdu.edu> sturm@sun490.fdu.edu (Neal Sturm) writes:
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- : 1. Has anyone had any luck with BOOTMENU by Gordon W. Ross. Actually,
- : the bootmenu program works fine, it's the PFDISK program that I have
- : been having trouble with. There seems to be a bug in it when the
- : partition size is greater then 99 Meg.
-
- I am using BOOTMENU on ISC SVR4.0.3. I had to hack PFDISK to use the
- ioctl to do absolute sector reads and writes since the SCSI disk device
- driver doesn't provide access to sector 0 without creating a slice using
- edvtoc(1M). I don't have the 99M problem you described. Here are my
- partition tables: (I have an Adaptec 1542B so 1 cylinder = 1 Meg)
-
- # pfdisk version 1.3 by Gordon W. Ross Oct. 1990
- For help, enter: '?'
- pfdisk> l
- # Partition table on device: /dev/rdsk/0s0
- geometry 496 64 32 (cyls heads sectors)
- # ID First(cyl) Last(cyl) Name # start, length (sectors)
- 1 6 0 79 MS-DOS # 32, 163808
- 2 99 80 495 SVR4 # 163840, 851968
- 3 0 0 0 # 0, 0
- 4 0 0 0 # 0, 0
- active: 2
- pfdisk>
-
- # Partition table on device: /dev/rdsk/1s0
- geometry 80 64 32 (cyls heads sectors)
- # ID First(cyl) Last(cyl) Name # start, length (sectors)
- 1 0 0 0 # (empty) # 0, 0
- 2 0 0 0 # (empty) # 0, 0
- 3 6 0 77 # DOS-big # 32, 159712
- 4 99 78 79 # UNIX # 159744, 4096
- active: 4
- pfdisk>
-
- Is there a later version of BOOTMENU than 1.3?
-
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