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Date:      Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:13:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Welson Ho <welson@aloha.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: handup after install
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960315151212.6684D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960315093111.10201A-100000@hookomo.aloha.net>

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On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Welson Ho wrote:

> 1)  The boot disk is not working. I use both rawrite to write the boot 
> image and from view menu to make the boot disk, however, when I reboot 
> the machine, it just go ahead to C: drive. 

Try a new formatted floppy, and making sure the boot order is set to boot 
from drive a: first in BIOS setup.

> 2)   After install(no error message) I reboot the machine, and it hand 
> up after BIOS. It look like it destoey the MBR or FAT. I tre use 
> FDISK/MBR to replace the MBR but it still not working. I still can boot 
> the maching using boot disk, how can solve this problems. BTW, I select 
> 'don't touch MBR' option during setup.

Try checking for the "active" flag on one of the partitions.

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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