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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1116 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:26:43 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!nosegoblin.css.itd.umich.edu!pauls From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: how do I undo 386BSD boot blocks? Date: 11 Feb 1993 23:00:32 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1lelqg$dfc@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <C2B059.JCA@space.physics.uiowa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nosegoblin.css.itd.umich.edu In article <C2B059.JCA@space.physics.uiowa.edu> ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) writes: >I just received a nice new machine to run 386BSD on, so my old machine >is reverting back to DOS. Unfortunately after running fdisk, format, >and installing DOS on the drive it fails to boot and appears to still >have the 386BSD boot blocks. I know this has been asked before, but fdisk /mbr That will over-write the master boot record to prepare it for DOS. >(Maybe this should be added to the FAQ?) Actually it is in INSTALL.NOTES. Paul Southworth Computer Systems Consultant UM - Ann Arbor pauls@umich.edu