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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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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