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John Mulhollen wrote:
> 
> I've been all the way through the install, configured several products
> (apache) and went to reboot...poof! I get the bootmanager asking me to
> press F?. F1 is my only choice, and when I press it, i am prompted to
> press F?...
> 
> restarted install and the system boots from floppy to the install menu
> and it appears the partition is not marked bootable... is there a way to
> simply mark the partition as bootable, or must i re-install?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> -johnm

Get out your Dos boot disk with FDISK on it and use dos's fdisk to
mark a partition active.

Single OS ??
Why the boot manager??
No biggie. :)

-Enjoy
Gary
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