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Subject: Re: Cannot install DOS on an EX-FreeBSD PC!
In-Reply-To: <01BD48D4.94D81E20@spsgestion.hondutel.hn> from Pablo Quintana at "Mar 6, 98 07:50:47 am"
To: quintana@hondutel.hn (Pablo Quintana)
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Pablo Quintana wrote:
>
> system files, and all is going great. But when I reboot again without the
> floppy the prompt puts a message like:
> 
> Not a bootable partition

Did you remember to mark the partition from which you want to boot as active
using fdisk.exe's "Set active partition option"?

If that doesn't work, try to run 'fdisk.exe /mbr' on that drive.  That should
restore the master boot record.

-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

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