From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 08:46:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA20196 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 08:46:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA20185 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 08:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA01524; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 08:46:33 -0800 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 08:46:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Blair Schmittel cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Everything messed up.. In-Reply-To: <199601071736.KAA18822@strech.cyber-naut.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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