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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!johnson From: johnson@tigger.jvnc.net (Steven L. Johnson) Subject: Re: 386BSD and DOS on a ide drive? Message-ID: <1992Oct8.212705.24857@tigger.jvnc.net> Originator: johnson@tigger.jvnc.net Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Nntp-Posting-Host: tigger.jvnc.net Organization: JvNCnet References: <6188@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:27:05 GMT Lines: 24 jrb@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (James Binkley) writes: >Could some kind soul please give me a blow-by-blow description >again of how to make 386BSD and dos coexist on separate partitions >on the same IDE drive? This must be a FAQ. I too couldn't seem to coerce the install to run properly on a 200M IDE when partitioned. I tried leaving empty partitions at the beginning or end of the disk and also specifically id'ing the partition with type 165. The install seemed to recognize it and copy files to the IDE. But when trying to boot the hard disk it either went into a reboot loop with a vm_fault of some type (screen clears very fast) or inability to find the 386bsd kernel image. I couldn't make sense out of how to use diskpart, disklabel and or newfs to correct this. I gave up and installed on the entire disk, which works just fine. On a side note downloading the bindist via slip went very cleanly. So is it the IDE, or my ignorance in how to get a label on the disk, or something even more basic? -Steve