Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!gunther
From: gunther@cbmvax.UUCP (Ed Gunther QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virtual Drives for the Bridgeboard
Message-ID: <3348@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 15:41:26 GMT
References: <2571@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: gunther@cbmvax.UUCP (Ed Gunther QA)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 32

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. 
>    So don't feel too bad if you're having some problems. You're not alone. I
> think that it's mainly the documentation that's causing the problems, and not
> the hardware.
>  
>                                                 ...Art

When using a hard disk/controller on the ibm side of the bus, you can boot the
bridgeboard from it.  You cannot boot the PC from a virtual device on the Amiga
side.  Did you make your PC partition active?  This is easy to forget when
partitioning a disk and you will not be able to boot off the pc hard drive then.

As you indicated the instructions for installing an IBM hard disk are fairly
detailed.  If you still can't get it to work, email me your procedure.  If
there's sufficient interest, I'll post an even more detailed procedure.
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