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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can NetBSD-0.9 and DOS get along?
Date: 11 Feb 1994 15:04:14 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: dvdjns@netcom.com's message of Thu, 10 Feb 1994 08:03:30 GMT


In article <dvdjnsCL011x.Juw@netcom.com> dvdjns@netcom.com (David
Jones) writes:

   If the SCSI card is on the system I can't boot the kernel copy
   floppy.

You haven't said what happens when you try to boot it.

I use a 1542B and various SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 devices on my (i386)
development box, and it has always worked dandy.  On other machines, I
have DOS, NT, and NetBSD all peacefully coexisting.  This is not at
all difficult to do.

   [...], but when I tried to get the DOS partition back so I could
   use DOS--the DOS partition boot seemed trashed.

This would tend to indicate that you didn't follow the directions very
well.  You *must* create a partition in the DOS partition table with a
type of 165 (decimal) for NetBSD before trying to install it.