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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!news.dell.com!pmafire!mica-nsf.inel.gov!cwis.isu.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: NetBSD doesn't like DOS? Message-ID: <1993May10.175619.19445@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT) References: <C6ssI1.HxJ@rex.uokhsc.edu> Date: Mon, 10 May 93 17:56:19 GMT Lines: 40 In article <C6ssI1.HxJ@rex.uokhsc.edu> benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu writes: > I would really like to get a UNIX going on my PC. I am partial to >BSD UNIX. However, I have had some difficulties installing NetBSD to >coexist with DOS. A previous release wouldn't do what was necessary to >boot when it coexisted with DOS (I am not quite sure what that is, but I >would imagine it would involve installing a boot loader and marking the >partition active). > > This version created a partition table that didn't have my DOS >partition (deleted the info), and created an entry (in the fourth slot) >that spanned from like the the beginning of the disk to something weird >like the 1023 cylinder/63 head/255th track (according to On-track Disk >Manager). Having lost my DOS partition (I didn't have backups of >everything, but that was my fault...) to trying to install this the day >before, I knew all the parameters and was able to restore the partition >table with On-track Disk Manager. The DOS partition chkdsk's fine and >the NetBSD partition fsck's fine, too. Now I just have to install the >remaining disks... There are problems with translated drive parameters; in particular, in many cases it is not possible to turn off translation for DOS or to turn on translation of anything not using the BIOS. I would like to suggest that anyone running an IDE drive run a copy of ide_conf.exe under DOS to get both the translated and untranslated drive parameters. POST THESE WHEN YOU ASK A QUESTION REGARDING DISK CONFIGURATION. If you have a non-WD drive (like a SCSI drive), a copy of the program pfdisk.exe should be run to get the translated parameters, and the untranslated parameters will be reported by the SCSI driver when you boot 386BSD/NetBSD. POST THESE WHEN YOU ASK A QUESTION REGARDING DISK CONFIGURATION. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.