Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!bionet!apple!claris!sts!octopus!vsi1!wyse!bob From: bob@wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen Wyse Technology Training) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Problem with Xenix 2.2.1 with 2 Hard Disks Message-ID: <2359@wyse.wyse.com> Date: 14 Aug 89 18:17:20 GMT References: <7748@charlie.OZ> Sender: news@wyse.wyse.com Reply-To: bob@wyse.UUCP (Bob McGowen Wyse Technology Training) Organization: Wyse Technology Lines: 38 In article <7748@charlie.OZ> vortex@charlie.UUCP (Mark Gregson) writes: > > I am trying to add an extra hard disk to my PC at home > running Xenix 2.2.1 and I have encountered a wierd > problem. > > My main hard disk (device 0) is a 70 MB and I am trying > to add a 20 MB hard disk (device 1) to run MS-DOS. > > The problem I am getting is that when Xenix boots and > I get the familiar "Xenix Boot:" message and I enter > "dos" to get it to boot from the second hard disk ---deleted--- The problem is that the boot environment MUST be on the primary disk. The method I have used to achieve the environment you want is to create a very small DOS partition on the first disk. This is just enough cylinders to provide the space needed for the two DOS hidden files, command.com, autoexec.bat and config.sys. Everything in these last two files should be set to point to the second hard disk: devices=d:*.sys or path=d:\dos.... The last line in autoexec.bat is: d: which puts you on the second disk to run dos. I hope this helps. Bob McGowan (standard disclaimer, these are my own ...) Customer Education, Wyse Technology, San Jose, CA ..!uunet!wyse!bob bob@wyse.com