From: wolff@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) Subject: Re: Dos6 killed Linux : -( Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 11:28:15 GMT
Stephen Tweedie (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: I've had similar trouble. The solution appears to be to allow a blank
: cylinder between any DRDOS partitions and any Linux partitions. The
: DRDOS partitions seem to overrun, corrupting the subsequent Linux
: superblock or swap signature.
: I have been successfully running DRDOS/Linux on the same drive since I
: did this.
I once installed DRDOS. It didn't recognise the Linux partition as
foreign. it gave me a partition full of shit. I thought that as long
as I don't refer to the Linux partition, DRDOS would not modify it,
and in the mean while, I could fiddle around to find the switch that
would disable that partition alltogether. Guess what? Before I found
that switch, DRDOS decided that it was time to write a backup-FAT.
The DRDOS boot diskette has been destroyed, and is now hanging on
the wall, with a sign pointing to it: "The only right way of installing
DRDOS 6" ----> <crumpled disk>
Roger.