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From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: I can't get 386BSD to boot
Message-ID: <Sep.6.01.58.52.1992.29214@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 92 05:58:53 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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I've just tried installing 386BSD on my system.  I'm using dist.fs
from the cgw newbootables, because I've got 16MB of memory.  I have a
DOS partition, an extended DOS partition, and a 386BSD partition.  I
made the 386BSD partition under Linux (which is hiding in the extended
DOS partition), setting the partition type to a5.  The install appears
to work, but when I try to boot from the disk, I get "no operating
system".  This is a 486 with AMI BIOS.  I had been using shoelace to
boot Linux, but in case that was the trouble, I put back a DOS MBR
using fdisk /mbr and redid everything.  I still get the same result.
Any idea what is going on?