Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:28:35 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I re-format 'dangerously dedicated' drive? Message-ID: <200511210228.jAL2SZT7001772@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051120232420.GA98270@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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> > > Hi all, > > I don't have an MS-DOS floppy, and I think my CDROM isn't booting because the > HD is 'dangerously dedicated,' even though it is a bootable CD and the BIOS is > set to boot it first. Since it is set to boot the HD first and it has a boot sector, the BIOS doesn't want to get by that. So, you want to go in to the BIOS and reconfigure it to put the CD boot in front of the HD. Then you can either completely reinstall the most recent FreeBSD or use the fisit to rebuild something on that disk. The key thing is to have both floppy and CD in the boot order before the Hard Disk. Change that only if you really need to. ////jerry > > I want to totally clear my drive so I can reinstall from scratch from CDROM. > How can I do this? > > jm > -- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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