Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!dandelion!ulowell!hawk.ulowell.edu!dfisk
From: dfisk@hawk.ulowell.edu (David Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virtual Drives for the Bridgeboard
Message-ID: <5035@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 88 13:15:51 GMT
References: <2571@crash.cts.com>
Sender: news@swan.ulowell.edu
Reply-To: dfisk@hawk.ulowell.edu (David Fisk)
Organization: University of Lowell, CS Dept.
Lines: 26

In article <2571@crash.cts.com> artw@pnet01.cts.com (Art Weiss) writes:
>  "Format the PC partition of the hard disk using the MS-DOS format command.
>If you want to boot from the hard disk, you must specify the /s option...."
> 
>Well it turns out that even if you do it that way it still doesn't boot. Now I
>don't expect the Amiga side to boot off its partition, but the PC side ought
>to. I have talked to some other folks who have BridgeBoards and none of them
>seem to be able to get MS_DOS to boot off the hard disk. 
> 
>                                                ...Art

Well, I am assuming that you mean you cannot get the BridgeCard to boot of
of a PC hard disk, correct? You cannot boot it off of a virtual disk on the
amiga side. You should, however, be able to boot the BridgeCard off of a PC
hard disk, i've done it (not my BridgeCard though, it's the store I work
for's). At first, our's wouldn't boot either. It turned out to be the fact
that we had put the Amiga partition first on the disk. You must put the PC
partition starting at cylinder 0 if you want to be able to boot off of the
disk. (also no floppy in the drive)
 
 Does this help any?

 David Fisk
 University of Lowell
 Computer Science Major
 dfisk@hawk.ulowell.edu