DEC Rainbow Hard drive.

[Jeffrey Armstrong]

>    The MSDOS Hard Drive partition utility on the DEC Rainbow gives you
> two partitions( E and F.)
> There's no choice, that's what you get. However neither E nor F are on
> the boot list.
> So the question is "How do I set the partitions to C and D and make C:
> bootable?"

On a Rainbow, drives C and D always refer to the third and fourth floppy 
drives.  Your hard drive is set up properly right now.  To boot from the 
hard drive, you'll need to choose 'W' for Winchester hard drive at the 
boot menu.  If you are using a Rainbow 100-A, this option is not present 
in the boot menu, and you're out of luck as far as booting to the hard 
disk is concerned (I beleive).  If you have a 100-B or 100+ (which is just 
a B anyway), The W option should be present on the main menu.  SImply 
select W and another menu may or may not appear allowing you to choose 
which partition to boot from.

You can quickly tell if you have a 100 A or B by either:

1.  Looking at the model number on the back of the unit near the power 
plug (PC-100-A is a Rainbow 100 A, PC-100-B or -B2 is obviously a Rainbow 
100 B)

2.  Looking at the firmware version on the boot menu ( Version 4.XX or 
less is a Rainbow 100 A, Version 5.XX or higher is a 100 B).

Hope this helps!

-Jeff

jba at sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org