From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 03:17:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA24272 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 03:17:55 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA24262 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 03:17:52 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA28508; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 19:49:52 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508301019.TAA28508@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Does fdisk work? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 19:49:51 +0930 (CST) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <2416.809771491@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 30, 95 01:31:31 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 991 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > I'm working on this problem (really really!) for 2.1 and hope to > have this problem behind us. For now, I suggest booting DOS and > installing BOOTEASY that way. Really strange, BTW, that it doesn't > see your second drive! It does mine, and I can boot DOS from > either drive using BOOTEASY.. How do you boot DOS from the second disk? I was under the (mis?) understanding that it read the partition boot code out of the first sector in the partition, and that has 0x80 hardcoded in it. (Or do you have DOS on both the first and second disk?) > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[