root@ozdaltx.UUCP (root) (10/07/90)
OK, SCO what seems to be the problem here? I'm helping a(nother) client setup his 386 with DOS 4.01 and Xenix 2.3 also 386. (Was there a sale I missed?) I create a DOS partition on drive C: and make it active. Fdisk tells me that the partition is there, but lables it as Type "PRI DOS". (?) When I do the Xenix install everything is fine up to the point that (Xenix) fdisk runs. I get the following Partition table: +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Partition | Status | Type | Start | End | Size | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | 1 | active | UNKNOWN | 1 | 4499 | 4499 | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ (Xenix partition not shown) Xenix installs like it should, but when dos is specified at the boot prompt the error message says: dos: no dos partition. I've used three different versions of dos, including my install of DOS 3.2, all with the same results. Xenix appears not to be reading the partition table correctly - why? Oh yeah, out of curosity, I tried installing my 286 version of 2.2.3 xenix - everything ran like a charm. Is there a fix/patch or what? C is the only drive that is formated with just the DOS OS, D is left alone. Either OS will run, but only by changing the active partition. For what it is worth, this is using another one of those humungus hard drives - 650 meg that is split into two logical drives, C and D on initial format (soft), C being split at 1024 cyls and the balance going to drive D. Could this be causing this problem? Personally, I don't understand why anyone would want to have that large of a single drive with everything they have on it - it would make me very nervous to have all my "electronic eggs" in one basket. ;-) After 3 days and countless formats later - it is getting old real fast. Thanks for any help, Please e-mail responces. scotty {mic | void | sulaco | egsner}!root@ozdaltx
jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay A. Snyder) (10/11/90)
DOS 4.xx partitions are different than of 3.xx versions. I couldn't get Xenix's fdisk (or boot: dos) to recognize it either. Try using DOS 3.3 (or 3.31), and keep your primary parition (PRI DOS is your primary parition) under 32 meg. J -- ============================================================================== Jay A. Snyder "Let Me Up! I've had enough" wa3wbu!gdx!jay@uunet.uu.net uunet!wa3wbu!gdx!jay