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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!nic.hookup.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Help. Can't erase 386BSD active partition. Date: 11 Jan 1994 15:38:49 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2guh69$c86@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <2gtk3n$9dm@cmcl2.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <2gtk3n$9dm@cmcl2.nyu.edu>, liuyu <liuyu@acf2.nyu.edu> wrote: >Hi, > Long time ago, I installed 386BSD on a 120meg IDE drive. Later I >erased 386BSD, at least I thought I did, and used the drive as a slave >IDE drive with two DOS partitions. Now I'm trying to make the drive master >IDE drive. I erased both DOS partitions and created one active DOS >partiton. I format the drive with system (format c: /s ). But when I >tried to boot from this drive, the old 386BSD pops out saying some >386BSD file was missing. What's going on here? If I boot from floppy >A: drive, I can go to C: and everything is there. > >Can anyone tell me how to really erase the old 386BSD and make my >computer boot from C:? fdisk /mbr c: marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--