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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:11:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: User TNZ <tnz@civil.petra.ac.id>
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Subject: Re: Partition Not Active ?
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On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, User TNZ wrote:

> I have successfuly installed FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE in my Pentium 133, 
> 32MB Ram.
> 
> I do all the instruction below the novice instalation.
> 
> But, when the installation finished, and then the machine rebooted, I got 
> "Missing Operating System" ?

Fire up DOS FDISK and set the 'active' flag to your FreeBSD slice.  It
gets reset sometimes.  Your subject line had it right on the nose.

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