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In <1992Apr18.191056.13971@Celestial.COM> bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:

>I'm totally frustrated trying to set up a portable computer with
>a 40MB DOS 5.00 partition and 160MB SCO UNIX 3.2v4 partition.  I
>can get either DOS or UNIX to run successfully, but DOS won't run
>with a UNIX partition.  Can anybody help?

>I'm having a problem getting DOS 5.0 to co-exist with SCO UNIX 3.2v4
>on a Quantum PD210S hard drive.  The drive was originally used
>with a single DOS partition for the whole disk.  I then used
>fdisk to create a 40Meg DOS partition with the rest in a UNIX
>partition (yes, I did it in the correct order....).  DOS works
>fine so long as there isn't a second partition on the disk, but
>dies when the UNIX partition exists.  Removing the UNIX partition
>restores DOS operations.  I have tried:
>.....bunch of stuff deleted.

Thanks for all the responses to my post.  Lee Penn came closest
to the solution by saying that emm386 was bent!  Bela suggested
the possibility of extra 1K blocks being created during the UNIX
installation, but that wasn't the problem.  Dion Johnson pointed
out the setup /u in the DOS 5.0 installation which didn't seem to
make any difference either.

The final solution (hopefully) was on the DOS end.  I bought and
installed QEMM 6.02 Expanded Memory Manager to replace emm386 and
that at least got the machine to get through to the end of the
autoexec.bat file.  It still didn't work completely at first, but
with some more tweaking I finally got it running.

Windows 3.0 wouldn't come up after I installed the QEMM program,
and I tried various combinations of drivers and options for
invoking qemm.  Nothing worked 'til I reinstalled Win3.0 from
scratch.  Once I did that it seemed to work.

I then tried the Optimize program that comes with qemm, and that
found about 111K extra memory.  Unfortunately it also blew away
my hard disk :-(.

After the optimize crash, I booted from my floppy with the
PC-Interface stuff on it, reformatted the C: drive, and restored
it with my old tar backup.  This backup had the emm386
configuration which wouldn't come up so I installed qemm before
trying to reboot from hard disk and restored config.sys and
autoexec.bat as they were before optimize blew me away.  The
strange thing is that windows 3.0 now worked from the old backup
without change! MS_DOS IS STRANGE!

I'm still not sure exactly what was wrong, or what I did that
fixed it, but here are the final config.sys and autoexec.bat
files that work.
---CONFIG.SYS
files= 30
stacks= 0,0
SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\  /e:512 /p
buffers= 10
lastdrive=u
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM ST:M DB=4 X=B000-B7FF
DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
DOS=HIGH
device = C:\PCI\DRIVERS\BRIDGE.DRV
device = C:\PCI\DRIVERS\3C501.DRV
break=on
device=C:\WINDOWS\smartdrv.sys 2048 1024
----AUTOEXEC.BAT
rem @ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
SET PATH=C:\QEMM;c:\bin;C:\EXCEL;C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS;c:\dbax;C:\WINWORD
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
REM
REM	PC-Interface 4.0 ---- Begin
set PCIPATH=C:\PCI\BIN
set PATH=%PATH%;%PCIPATH%
rem *************** MouseWare 6.0 Setup *******************
set PATH=C:\MOUSE;%PATH%
loadhi MOUSE SER 1
loadhi LOGIMENU
loadhi CLICK
rem *******************************************************
set HOSTS=C:\ETC\
set onprefix=/usr/bin/csspci
if exist C:\PCI\EM.SES del C:\PCI\EM.SES
C:\pci\bin\PCIINIT
c:\pci\bin\login /d:e camco1 bill 5p906
printer lpt1 camco1 "lp -dlp1000 -o-ps10 -o-n" /t15
subst h: e:\u\usr\bill
subst k: e:\u\usr\kermit
subst u: e:\u\dos
SET PATH=C:\ALDUS;C:\PM4;%PATH%;u:\bin;c:\imc\xroff
REM	PC-Interface 4.0 ---- End
REM

SET PATH=C:\QEMM;C:/ALDUS;C:/PM4;C:/MOUSE;C:/PCI/BIN;C:/EXCEL;C:/WINDOWS;C:/DOS;C:/BIN;C:/DBAX;U:/WINWORD;U:/BIN;C:/IMC/XROFF;C:\MVW
set ROOTDIR=c:
set TMPDIR=c:/tmp
set LANG=po
set NLSPATH=c:/nls/%l/mks001.nls
set TZ=PST8PDT
set MVWDIR=C:\MVW
c:\mvw\MPCI
switch -
rem Run the shell last
sh -L -0 c:/bin/sh.exe -R 0
---END AUTOEXEC.BAT

Now I'm going to back this sucker up while it's still working :-).

Bill
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