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- From: coffler@dbased.enet.dec.com (Jeff Coffler)
- Subject: Re: Can the Python DAT driver in Win NT be used with a WangDAT?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.144039.25672@dbased.nuo.dec.com>
- Keywords: WangDAT
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- Sender: coffler@dbased (Jeff Coffler)
- Reply-To: coffler@dbased.enet.dec.com (Jeff Coffler)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH
- References: <goyal.724982374@willow.cs.scarolina.edu>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:40:39 GMT
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- In article <goyal.724982374@willow.cs.scarolina.edu>, goyal@cs.scarolina.edu (Sanjay Goyal) writes:
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- |>2. I have partitioned my hardrive with DOS/NT on first partition
- |>and ISC 3.0 UNIX on second partition.
- |>The Dos and NT operating system was installed a while back. And
- |>Windows NT was installed on the DOS partition a few days back.
- |>
- |>When the system comes up and ISC Boot Manager asks me which partition
- |>to boot from , and I select NT ... NT gives me a Fatal Error and hangs up!!
- |>The only way to boot NT is to go into UNIX and make the first partition
- |>active and then reboot the computer
- |>
- |>There is something strange going on here ...
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- I've seen this one with DELL Unix as well.
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- From looking at the output from the NT Boot Loader, it appears that the NT boot
- software assumes that NT is in the primary (active) paritition. Thus, when it
- isn't, it looks for stuff in the wrong place and gets mucho confused.
-
- I boot off of a DOS diskette and change the active partition to my NT
- partition, then boot NT. When done, I reboot from the DOS diskette and
- run fdisk to change the active partition back to the UNIX partition ...
-
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- {Disclaimer: What I say is my personal opinion}
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