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Operating Systems SCO xp/sco 5.0.7 dual boot issues Post 302114607 by stay0ut on Tuesday 17th of April 2007 08:26:17 AM

04-17-2007

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A little more info . . .

. . . the reason for dual-booting is due to the fact that the workstation is connected to an external serial CMM box controlling a measurement testing station. The required update for the windows software is for xp only. The SCO apps are no longer supported but the results spit out by these apps are still required by our customers.

Two machines just wouldn't work in this situation. Also, the workstations are being used by shop floor employees so asking them do anything more than point and click is asking for trouble.

Something I have tried is using the bootos command in SCO. After I have both OS's installed, at the SCO boot prompt, I type bootos xp. XP is set up as the alias for the partition. But, again, I get the CYL OVF error when it tries to access that partition. Fdisking to make the partition active, would be too much for shop floor employees to do and since I have tried it, may or may not work.

In previous posting, I said SYS OVF error in reference to the mbr. It was actually CYL OVF, or 0VF (zero). I am not sure how to resolve this error without reinstalling SCO. And in the bootos situation, no idea at all.

Thanks for the guidance and input.

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mkfs.bfs

MKFS.BFS(8)						Linux System Administrator's Manual					       MKFS.BFS(8)

NAME

       mkfs.bfs - make an SCO bfs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       mkfs.bfs [-N nr-of-inodes] [-V volume-name] [-F fsname] device [size-in-blocks]

DESCRIPTION

       mkfs.bfs creates an SCO bfs file-system on a block device (usually a disk partition or a file accessed via the loop device).

       The  size-in-blocks  parameter  is  the	desired size of the file system, in blocks.  If nothing is specified, the entire partition will be
       used.

OPTIONS

       -N     Specify the desired number of inodes (at most 512).  If nothing is specified some default number	in  the  range	48-512	is  picked
	      depending on the size of the partition.

       -V volume-label
	      Specify the volume label. I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -F fsname
	      Specify the fsname. I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -v     Be verbose.

EXIT CODES

       The exit code returned by mkfs.bfs is 0 when all went well, and 1 when something went wrong.

SEE ALSO

       mkfs(8).

AVAILABILITY

       The mkfs.bfs command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

Util-linux 2.9x 						   12 Sept 1999 						       MKFS.BFS(8)

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