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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!jadpc!rick@pubah.hq.af.mil (Rick J Weldon) From: rick@pubah.hq.af.mil (Rick J Weldon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD MSDOS partition recognition? Message-ID: <9207241821.AA15909@pubah.hq.af.mil> Date: 24 Jul 92 18:51:47 GMT Sender: 386bsd-gate@jadpc.cts.com Reply-To: rick@pubah.hq.af.mil (Rick J Weldon) Organization: J. Deitch & Associates Lines: 29 Originator: 386bsd-gate@jadpc.cts.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: kevinz@storage.tandem.com (Kevin Ziegler) Version: 5.31 -- Copyright (c) 1991, Anastasios Kotsikonas From: kevinz@storage.tandem.com (Kevin Ziegler) To: 386bsd-gate@jadpc.cts.com Subject: 386BSD MSDOS partition recognition? kevinz@storage.tandem.com (Kevin Ziegler) writes: >I repartitioned my 120 MB hard disk over the weekend to create a 60 MB DOS >and a 60 MB BSD partition, and then installed 0.1. The installation went >without a hitch, and the system booted fine. However, when I tried to do >a /usr/distbin/shutdown -todos to make the DOS partition active from within >386BSD, I got a 'Can't make dos bootable' error. Has anyone else seen this?0 >Do I need to do something to make 386BSD recognize my DOS partition? Any >help would be appreciated. >KZ Kevin if you get any resonses to this I would like to know also. I installed manually using seperate partitions for / and /usr. I would like to know how to manually add a DOS partition that I can get to. Thanks a bundle Rick Weldon I-NET Inc. (Pentagon, 7TH Com Group) E-mail: rick@hq.af.mil Phone: 703-697-4654