Having DOS 4.01 and XENIX2.3.2 on the same disk

[Charlie Pilzer]

In article <1262 at sdrc.UUCP>, spsisira at sdrc.UUCP (Sisira Jayasinghe) writes:
> 
> 
>          I have installed Xenix 2.3.2 on my Northgate
> SL20-386 machine on a XENIX partition. First, I installed
> DOS 4.01 by making a primary DOS partition.
> 
>          But, I cannot get into DOS by typing DOS at the boot
> prompt. It issues an error message saying "No DOS partition fond".

The solution to this is to patch the "dos" program in the Xenix
root directory.  It currently looks for a DOS 2.x, 3.x type of
DOS partition.  It needs to be changed to look for a DOS 4.x
primary partition.

Charlie Pilzer
clp at beartrk.beartrack.com