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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Margaret Tarbet <tarbet@swaa.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.1 install problem
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On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Margaret Tarbet wrote:

> again, same result.  In both cases, because i want to use
> System Commander to manage the boot selection, i chose to
> have a simple boot block installed rather than the bsd boot
> manager.  That shouldn't be significant, but y'never know.

OK, then, you DON'T want to even *touch* the MBR, so make that 
selection.  Then configure syscommander with your new bsd partition.  

You might try booting using the install floppy and giving the path to the 
new disk, ie boot:  sd0(0,a)/kernel or whatever is appropriate.

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