Dual boot 98 and unix sco 5.0.6 1

[josramon]

Hi guys i'm new in this forum and i'm also new in unix world so please bear with me

This is my problem.

I have windows 98 installed on my laptop is a omnibookXe3
PhonenixBios 4.0. release 6.0
Bios revision GC.M1.63
S3 vga bios version 53.01
is a hp omnibook xe3

Unix installs with no problem but when it comes to give me to boot: is says cyl ovf, i've been in diferent forums and so far what i have learned that is a bios problem not with Unix SCO
This is one of the answers at the other forums.
*---Your boot filesystem defaults to 20 MB. This, plus a little
bit of stuff that comes before it (divvy table, boot loader, etc.),
need to reside in the first 1024 cylinders, so you'll need slightly
more than 20 MB free there. The rest can follow from cylinders
1024 onwards without problems.----*

If any one could give me hand i'll really apreciate it.
You guys have no idea for how long i've been working on this.

Thanks a lot guys

 

[stanhubble]

"need to reside in the first 1024 cylinders"

it translates to......install unix first then w98

 

[josramon]

Thanks man but could you give me more details , like what with the partitions . I mean just 1 more tip bro i'll really apreciate it.


Thanks a lot

 

[Annihilannic]

Two partitions should be enough. During the SCO installation at one point fdisk will ask you whether you want to "Use entire disk for UNIX". Say no, and split it up according to the amount of space you want to allocate to SCO and to Windows 98.

I would suggest then using fdisk (either the DOS or SCO one) to mark the (empty) Windows 98 partition as the active partition in preparation for your Windows 98 installation, and be careful when you're installing Windows 98 not to reinitialise the disk's layout. Annihilannic.

 

[Locus1]

I highly recommend getting PartitionMagic, or a reasonable facsimile. It makes it so much easier to install any popular operating system. Plus BootMagic that comes with the package is a handy boot menu.

I installed Win98 on a hard drive. Then installed PartitionMagic and BootMagic. I used PartitionMagic to push the Win98 partition to the upper range of hard drive cylinders. It does not need to be in the first 1K of cylinders to boot, as is the case for WinNT 4 and apparently SCO UNIX.

Then I disabled BootMagic, prepared the partition where I was going to install UNIX, set it as the ACTIVE, which hides the Win98 partition, and booted to the UNIX CD to install.

Once UNIX is installed, you boot to the PartitionMagic floppies you created as a part of the install, set the active partition back to Win98 and reboot. Once Win98 is up, you re-enable BootMagic, add the UNIX partition to the menu, and you're off.

I haven't done this for about a year, so my memory of the specific steps may be inaccurate. I believe I installed BootMagic when I installed PartitionMagic. That's the great thing about PartitionMagic - you can always wipe things out and start over.

One final note, I don't believe that any PartitionMagic version prior to 6.0 supports UNIX partitions, but check before you buy.