AJB@dlvh.daresbury.ac.uk (12/31/90)
Hello chaps, There is a nasty feature associated with using the ICD host-adapter HDUTIL program to select a bootable hard drive partition on a drive where MINIX is installed. It bit me a long time ago and its just bitten someone else so I'm posting before I forget again. The problem is that, suppose you want to make drive C the TOS boot partition, the HDUTIL software dutifully makes a boot sector on 'C' but also wipes the boot sectors on all other partitions just to be safe :-| You, of course, end up with an 'Invalid file system' the next time you try to access your MINIX partitions. If someone can mail me an email address for ICD I'll suggest they put an option in their program that asks before it gobbles. Thanks Alan Bleasby SERC Daresbury Laboratory Daresbury Warrington WA4 4AD UK Email: AJB@DLVH.DARESBURY.AC.UK