Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 08:46:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Blair Schmittel <blair@cyber-naut.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Everything messed up.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960108084531.1513A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199601071736.KAA18822@strech.cyber-naut.com>
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On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, Blair Schmittel wrote: > >You need to use FDISK to set one of your partitions as `active'. > >Sometimes this gets set and then lost. > I tried that. It says "The only startable partition on Drive 1 is already > set active. BSD is on Drive 2, but I can't get fdisk to pick it up. Odd. Can you boot it using the install floppy and hd(1,a)/kernel? (hd=sd or wd, depending on disk) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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