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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: can't boot
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, vtwin wrote:

> i made 2 partitions on my drive to install freebsd on 1 and dos on the
> other.  i couldn't get freebsd configured so i ran fdisk and formated
> the freebsd partition. i got the default f1 boot up option and it booted
> win95 fine till i added some ram. then i got a second bootup option f2
> and my puter won't boot without a boot disk now. i took the ram out and
> it's still the same.  i ran fisk again and the dos partition was primary
> and active and the second is ext dos. 

Try running FDISK /MBR to reset your boot blocks.

This machine didn't have any sort of disk translation running, did it?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major