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In article <1992Aug17.092316.16400@polaris.utu.fi> ahahma@polaris.utu.fi (Arno Hahma) writes:
>I have a problem with my hard disk not booting MS-DOS. The drive is a
>Maxtor 8760S and the SCSI controller Adaptec 1542B. 
>
>I installed Interactive unix 3.0 on my computer and that works fine.
>But, at the same time I lost the ability to use the 30 meg
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>Have I forgotten something? Are there still some settings to be
>considered? Or is the SCSI BIOS simply incompatible with my
>motherboard? Any hints are welcome!
>

I'm going from memory here, so please bear with me:

I have done this with ISC 3.0 and a 1542B.  If I remember correctly, if you
install ISC on a drive that already has a bootable (i.e., already        
partitioned, formatted, DOS installed) DOS partition of 32mb or less, the
ISC install routine will install a boot menu which allows you to select 
either the DOS or unix partition at boot up time.  It's been awhile since 
I've had a DOS partition on my unix machine, so the particulars don't 
immediately come to mind, but I'm fairly sure it's automatic if there's a
bootable DOS partition that the ISC install process recognizes.  Check out
page 9 of the Release Notes for version 3.0.  It implies that it's 
automatic.  All it says about the requirements for this feature are:
"If you have more than one operating system loaded on your primary fixed
disk..." it will boot the partition identified (by the FDISK table) as the
active one if there is no response with 20 seconds.
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Dave Parker
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