From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 6 23:35:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA22045 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 23:35:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.145]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA22036 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 23:35:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA01167; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 23:35:43 -0800 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 23:35:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Blair Schmittel cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Everything messed up.. In-Reply-To: <199601070601.XAA11105@strech.cyber-naut.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 6 Jan 1996, Blair Schmittel wrote: > > Hello. > > Here's the situation: I have a 850MG Western Digital drive, and a 340 MG drive. The 850 has the Western Digital drive overlay software installed. The 850 also has Win95 installed. The 850 is C: and the 340 is d: in dos. I installed FreeBSD on the 340. Now when I boot the computer, the drive overlay software says it wants a boot disk. > > What would I need to do to fix this? > > BLair You need to use FDISK to set one of your partitions as `active'. Sometimes this gets set and then lost. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major