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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:7672 comp.os.msdos.misc:18513 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.msdos.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!olivea!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!geh From: geh@netcom.com (Greg Holdren) Subject: Re: What's NetBSD done to my hard disk? Message-ID: <gehCIzv7D.Gvp@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.msdos.misc Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <2g5ul1$qpr@sol.ccs.deakin.edu.au> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 08:50:01 GMT Lines: 33 Phil Shead (drinnen@deakin.OZ.AU) wrote: : Just tried out X on my entire 102 MB hard disk in prep : for a new 340 MB disk. Happy with life I turn back to : dos to get back in the flow. Copy stuff back. Hit reset. : Wham, no bootable partition. Check this forgot to make : active partition. set to active, reformat, copy dos : stuff back. reset. Same problem, OK, grab os2 : disk, load the os2 partition editor. Hmm, say partition : bootable. delete, recreate, set bootable, reset. : format from dos. reset. Nothing. : So anybody know the secret?. The disk is accesible but : booting from floppy is not my idea of fun. Yep, Ran into this problem last week while getting DOS and NetBSD to co-exist. I did every thing to the harddrive to get it to boot DOS like your trying to do. The secret is: (drum roll) fdisk /mbr It was pretty flustrating. I thought a little bit and remembered reading about this somewhere. This won't mess up the current partitions allready configured. If your going to use DOS and *386 systems on the new harddrive I would use OS-BS135 or BootEasy. Greg Holdren geh@netcom.com