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Date:      Thu, 18 Dec 1997 08:01:57 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian Handy)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MBR Woes
Message-ID:  <199712181401.IAA09447@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971217190140.19866X-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> from Brian Handy at "Dec 17, 97 07:03:37 pm"

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In a previous message, Brian Handy said:
> ARrghgh...I just installed FBSD on a new box, and I made the disk
> "dangerously dedicated."  This in and of itself was fine, but I didn't
> make it bootable.
> 
> Then I went in with sysinstall and flipped the boot flag and wrote it out,
> wondering if that would do it.  It did, but in the process I got booteasy
> installed as well.
> 
> NOW, what happens is I get "F1  . . . BSD", but hitting F1 gets me
> nowhere.  
> 
> Is there a quick way out of this conundrum, or am I going to have to blast
> the disk to get around this?

Boot a DOS diskette and do a fdisk /mbr

 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
> 


-- 
Life is pretty good until you stop believing in Santa Claus. It goes
pretty much down hill from there. - Sum of All Our Fears




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