From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 7 09:34:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA23766 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 09:34:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from strech.cyber-naut.com (strech.cyber-naut.com [204.118.47.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA23741 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 09:34:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from ebola.cyber-naut.com (ip122.cyber-naut.com [204.118.47.122]) by strech.cyber-naut.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA18822; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 10:36:00 -0700 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 10:36:00 -0700 Message-Id: <199601071736.KAA18822@strech.cyber-naut.com> X-Sender: blair@mail.cyber-naut.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu From: Blair Schmittel Subject: Re: Everything messed up.. Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 11:35 PM 1/6/96 -0800, you wrote: > >You need to use FDISK to set one of your partitions as `active'. >Sometimes this gets set and then lost. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > 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. ---------------------------------------------- Blair Schmittel Manager of Operations Cyber-Naut admin@cyber-naut.com blair@cyber-naut.com