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Date:      Sun, 21 Jul 1996 16:26:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        allan torrey <atorrey@quicklink.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot fbsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960721162528.231B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960721163851.006f9d10@quicklink.com>

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On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, allan torrey wrote:

> Any ideas why after installing fbsd I can't boot from the hard drive, but
> only from the floppy, which then requires another install?

Sounds like either:

1.  You have multiple systems and didn't install the Boot Manger.
2.  The 'active' bit go reset on the partition.  Use DOS FDISK to reset
the 'active' partition to the FreeBSD slice.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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