rich@aggie.cyanamid.COM (Rich Seligson) (06/26/91)
In article <1991Jun24.054414.27025@dhw68k.cts.com> daveegan: @dhw68k.cts.com (Dave Egan - N6XVZ) writes: >A friend of mine owns SCO Unix 3.2 [...stuff deleted...] > >My question is, why can't my friend boot DOS from his hard disk? Is it >related to the order that the operating systems are loaded? I realize that >FDISK (MS-DOS) changes the active partition, but I sense there's a smoother >way of accomplishing this, such as XENIX does. I have a similar problem. In order to boot DOS I have to change the active partition to my DOS partition, and then shutdown and reboot. SCO Unix only recognizes DOS partitions for MS-DOS versions 3.3 and earlier. Check the version of DOS that your friend has installed. This is true for booting and the DOS utilities (doscp, dosdir, doscat, etc...). This is a headache for me because I need a DOS partition > 32 MB, but I also want Unix to recognize it. Oh well, sacrifices must be made... Rich P.S. I found this documented in the "Open Desktop Release Notes" page 41