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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: More problems getting DOS and 386BSD on same disk Message-ID: <1992Oct22.040256.12137@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Date: 22 Oct 92 04:02:56 GMT References: <1992Oct20.111953.893@altair.selu.edu> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore Lines: 60 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] Mike Whisenhunt zmw@selu.edu (zmw@altair.selu.edu) wrote: : Getting DOS and 386BSD to co-exist on my 120mb Conners hd is frustrating. : The great suggestions I have received from some helpful people haven't made : a difference the way I have applied them. : : I have set up a 30mb dos partition and the rest (82.8mb) for 386bsd. I : have used diskedit to change offset 466 from 05 to a5 of the master : boot record. Install detects the 386bsd partition and install runs just : fine. When rebooted, the system goes into a panic loop saying it can't : find the disk label. When I boot the fixit disk and do a disklabel wd0, I get : warning messages: Oh God! How many times do I have to tell this. Use OS-BS , without it, it will surely fail. : label: 20MB - CP3010 : flags: : bytes/sector: 512 : sectors/track: 17 : tracks/cylinder: 15 : sectors/cylinder: 255 : cylinders: 762 : rpm: 0 : interleave: 0 : trackskew: 0 : cylinderskey: 0 : headswitch: 0 #milliseconds : track-to-track seek: 0 #milliseconds : drivedata: 0 : : 1 partitions: : # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] : a: 172380 61455 unused 0 0 # (cyl.241-916) Does it match with your DOS partition table. : : When I do disklabel -R -r wd0 /tmp/dlwd0 /usr/mdec/wdboot /usr/mdec/bootwd : with the same config above, I get errors about partition a: extending : past end of unit, as well as warnings that rpm=0, and bad interleave. : When I slug in some values for these, and reduce the size on the a: partition : from 172380 down to an arbitrary 100000, no errors are reported and it : writes to the hd. When I get back into the dos disk editor, and look around : cylinder 241, in sector 2, the 386bsd label appears with the value : "20MB - CP3010", and yet, when booted, the label can't be found. : Are there some obvious problems in the above configuration which install : sets up? : Any help would be appreciated :-) Maybe your disklabel is different from your DOS partition info. Try ide_conf to find the default value Install try to get the default value, (probably) instead of getting it from CMOS. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet