Unix / Dos partition problem in ISC 2.0.2
Roger Fujii
rmf at media.uucp
Fri Jul 13 12:59:31 AEST 1990
darryl at ism780c.isc.com (Darryl Richman) writes:
>In article <532 at dptechno.UUCP> dave at dptechno.uucp (Dave Lee) writes:
>"Help! I'm having problems getting a unix and dos partition to coexist on
>"my second hard drive. I setup my second drive with sysadm/addharddisk.
>"I partitioned as follows:
>" Drive 68M RLL -- fdisk info
>"Partition type start end length
>"-----------------------------------------------
>"1 unix 1 530 530
>"2 dos 531 1022 492
>"
>"Mounted a /users file system on the 1st partition, coppied some files,
>"and unmounted /users. Booted 4.0 dos stand alone and formated the dos partition.
>"Rebooted unix, ran vpix with the following line in vpix.cnf
>"
>"D /dev/dsk/1p0
>This is your problem. 1p0 is the *entire* second disk. You probably want
>to use 1p2.
I don't think so. VPIX 1.1.1 has no clue about partitions. As far as I
can figure, drive D *MUST* b /dev/dsk/xp0. This is due to the fact that
VPIX apparently looks for the boot record for drive D which partitions
do not have. Now, a 'extended' partition looks like a 'boot' disk, but
for some inexplicable reason, any logical drives after the first one
does not 'attach' correctly.
In summary:
using D is a lose if:
1) you have a partition > 32M
2) If this is not the FIRST "disk" in the partition.
(this may be gotten around, but I couldn't find it).
Also, using the UNIX utilities to prep up the DOS side would probably help.
--
Roger Fujii - Media Cybernetics Phone: (301)495-3305
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