From: mtveg@rivm.nl (Erik Geertsema) Subject: Re: DRDOS 6.0 and Linux problem Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 12:46:35 GMT
Blaine A. Asato (basato@cwis.unomaha.edu) wrote:
: I'm having a problem with DRDOS 6.0 and Linux. DRDOS keeps assigning drive
: letters to my Linux partitions. I can load both DRDOS and Linux in their
: own partitions with no problems but DRDOS allows access to the Linux partition
: and has corrupted Linux with the DRDOS DISKMAP program. I'm afraid even if I
: disabled DISKMAP, other programs will try to access the Linux drives.
: I could do an ASSIGN on the drive letters DRDOS give to the Linux partitions
: back to the C: drive but would rather not do this work-around if possible. Is
: there any way I can force DRDOS to only recognize the DRDOS partition?
: Thank you in advance.
: Blaine Asato
: basato@cwis.unomaha.edu
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: Blaine A. Asato
:
I've read somewhere (probably in the FAQ's, so you should really read
those first !) that DRDOS thinks that Linux partitions are DRDOS's.
The thing to do is change the partition ID to a different value, since
Linux doesn't seem to care (yet).
Erik
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