Subject: Re: os-bs 2.0 beta question
To: Paul Apprich <psapp@terra.cnct.com>
From: Mark Willey <willeyma@expert.cc.purdue.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/02/1996 10:36:25
Paul Apprich writes:
> 
> 	I grabbed osbsBETA.exe from the tu-berlin site, and installed with
> no apparent problem. As a test, I put MS-DOS on the second hard drive
> (there's DOS on the first hdd) and set the menu accordingly. When I
> attempt booting from the second drive, I get a 'Non-system disk or disk
> error' message. I know that this is a message originating from the generic
> boot record. Is there supposed to be a modification to the MBR or GBR on 
> the second hdd to have this work properly? I tried installing NetBSD on 
> the second drive and when booting from tat OS was attempted, all that 
> happened was a hard lockup.

You need to re-install OS-BS each time you change the configuration of the
things you want to boot.  I dunno if DOS will boot from the second disk.
Put it on the first disk.  And also, say "YES" to "modify startup bit...?"
during the install.

Mark