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Date:      Fri, 24 May 1996 13:41:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        David Hansen <dhansen@cis.usouthal.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installing freebsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960524134052.3228D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.88.9605231634.A1361-0100000@go>

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On Thu, 23 May 1996, David Hansen wrote:

> having trouble installing freebsd on a second drive [d:] in a 486pc-clone 
> that already has win95 installed on the c:  it gets as far as rebooting 
> to mount the system but cannot ..freaks and dies.. i believe win95 must 
> be holding onto the mbr. can anyone tell me what i need to do? i'd 
> delete win95 if i didn't need it to run programs for school.

The active flag got reset.  use FDISK and put it back on the Win95 
partition.  

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




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