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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!news From: wkt@rodos1.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Subject: Re: 386bsd-0.1 and DOS co-existance Message-ID: <1992Aug7.011239.19685@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia References: <1992Aug5.233307.9174@gumby.dsd.trw.com> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 01:12:39 GMT >From article <1992Aug5.233307.9174@gumby.dsd.trw.com>, by gottloeb@eel.dsd.trw.com: > Has anyone successfully installed 386bsd-0.1 on a DOS system in which > the disk is an IDE drive using a translation geometry (i.e. not the > native number of cyls., etc.) in the BIOS? Tha answer is: No. 0.1 apparently obtains the disk geometry directly from the drive, and not from the CMOS information. You must run things in native mode. Perhaps someone can tell us if this will be corrected in a future release of 386BSD. Warren Toomey VK1XWT, on the path to insanity No longer in the bowels of ADFA Comp Science. `Version 7 Job Control: just use ptrace(2).'