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Date:      Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:51:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MBR Woes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971222225020.7705E-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971217190140.19866X-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>

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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Brian Handy wrote:

> ARrghgh...I just installed FBSD on a new box, and I made the disk
> "dangerously dedicated."  This in and of itself was fine, but I didn't
> make it bootable.
> 
> Then I went in with sysinstall and flipped the boot flag and wrote it out,
> wondering if that would do it.  It did, but in the process I got booteasy
> installed as well.
> 
> NOW, what happens is I get "F1  . . . BSD", but hitting F1 gets me
> nowhere.  
> 
> Is there a quick way out of this conundrum, or am I going to have to blast
> the disk to get around this?

Oops.  I don't think that booteasy is supposed to fit onto a dangerously
dedicated disk.  I didn't try it. :-/

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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