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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!lclee From: lclee@netcom.com (Lawrence Lee) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: installing 386bsd on 2nd partition: how to? Message-ID: <1993Mar10.142833.4025@netcom.com> Date: 10 Mar 93 14:28:33 GMT References: <495@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1nhtbuINN67s@life.ai.mit.edu> <wilko.731691643@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <wilko.731751783@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 16 wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: >And yes! It now boots from the HD. Only it flatly refused to co-exist >with MSDOS, install asked if it should use the whole HD and if N was >answered it exited. >I'll try to figure out what is wrong there. You need to have an OS type of 0xa5 in the partition table stored in the first sector of the hard drive. Using just MSDOS, you can create an extended partition to allocate the space and then write a program to read/update the master boot so that the extended partition entry changes to the OS type of 0xa5. Be careful, one slip and your DOS partition is history. Larry