Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!bellcore!clyde!cbatt!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!tdi2!brandon From: brandon@tdi2.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Switching between Xenix and DOS Message-ID: <118@tdi2.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Nov-86 22:30:46 EST Article-I.D.: tdi2.118 Posted: Sat Nov 29 22:30:46 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Dec-86 19:54:23 EST References: <2255@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: brandon@tdi2.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Tridelta Industries, Inc., Mentor, OH Lines: 35 Quoted from <2255@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> ["DOS --> XENIX --> DOS"], by osbook@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (osbook)... +--------------- | To build FDISK.XEN you need to know what responses FDISK expects to change the | active partition from #4 to #2. These responses are (check it yourself on your | own system): | | 2 | 2 | | | Note that there are no 's after the 's. | Note: When you execute XENIX.BAT and FDISK works automatically, you will hear | two beeps. Don't worry, it's okay. +--------------- I use this technique to switch from DOS to Concurrent CP/M for a real-time application we have. The spurious beeps are caused by the fact that is stored as , while FDISK expects only . Create a file contai- ning only the characters: 2 2 This will *silently* cause FDISK to change the boot partition. I created our batch file by typing 2 ALT-013 2 ALT-013 ALT-027 ALT-027 at PC-WRITE (a great shareware screen editor). ++Brandon -- ``for is he not of the Children of Luthien? Never shall that line fail, though the years may lengthen beyond count.'' --J. R. R. Tolkien /-----------//***/ Brandon S. Allbery: cbatt!cwruecmp!ncoast!tdi2!brandon /--- ------//***/ Tridelta Industries, Inc. / //---, /---/ 7350 Corporate Blvd. +1 216 255 1080 /--//---~ /---/ Mentor, Ohio 44060 HOME: +1 216 974 9210