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- From: gab10@cd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
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- Subject: Re: bsd386 & msdos in 1 micro
- Message-ID: <85ND025c2axm01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 00:21:51 GMT
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- In article <br.pct.26.721364010@RLG.Stanford.EDU>,
- br.pct@RLG.Stanford.EDU (Peter C Tam) writes:
- > Hi,
- >
- > May be this is a FAQ, but I certainly do not know where the FAQ is.
-
- It might be in the FAQ. The FAQ is unofficial and is not posted
- here very often. Look for it at agate.berkeley.edu in
- /pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/terry/FAQ.09Aug92.
-
- > I try to configure a 386/486 with IDE drive for: MSDOS, Window 3.1, OS/2,
- > BSD386. The problem is 386/486 only boot off C disk. But looking at things,
- > BSD386 seems to have a different file system than MSDOS (true?)
-
- Yep.
-
- > Does that implies I have to at least have 2 disk partitions, one for
- > BSD386 & 1 for the rest (MSDOS, Windows3.1, OS/2), & FDISK to activate
- > whichever partition?
- >
- > Or have 2 hard disks, one for Unix, one for the rest, but than what
- > happens to the boot off only C drive restriction Or is some micro has boot
- > drive configurable from CMOS?
- >
- > Or is there another solution to this?
-
- You certainly need a partition for 386BSD and another for DOS & Windows3.1.
- I thought that OS/2 also required its own partition. 386BSD will work
- within the DOS partitioning scheme or you can dedicate an entire drive to
- it. Currently, it must still boot from the first drive (actually, I think
- there was a project to lift this restiction, but I do not know if it has been
- completed).
-
- I heard that the IDE drives are tricky to configure for 386BSD. Check the FAQ
- to see if there is any info on this.
-
- You can certainly use FDISK to change the active partition bits to
- select between the O/Ss, but a more convenient solution would be a boot menu
- program. I use OS-BS (agate.berkeley.edu in
- /pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/terry/os-boot-select). It gives me a
- menu a boot time to select between the O/Ss.
-
- --
- Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
- | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
- | what is wrong with it.
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