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Date:      Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:25:31 -0400
From:      Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
To:        johnm@sd.cts.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ?Mark partition active?
Message-ID:  <3218BFAB.5C84@ime.net>
References:  <3218B7E0.786B@sd.cts.com>

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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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