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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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