From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 27 08:01:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA26085 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 08:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA26080 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 08:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slip166-72-108-241.ny.us.ibm.net (slip166-72-108-241.ny.us.ibm.net [166.72.108.241]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA23710; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:01:18 GMT Message-Id: <199709271501.PAA23710@out2.ibm.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Michael G." To: Maxim Surdu , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:00:30 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: installing DOS problems..:-)))) (but FreeBSD question!) X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Michael G." X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Dear FreeBSD Gurus, > Few days ago I've decided to make some more free space for > /usr and swap partitions... > I have 2 scsi HARD Drives > and FreeBSD was on second drive and swap was on first > (of course !:-) as well as DOS (for some stupid reasons) > I felt really brave to remove previously installed DOS and > then add some space from first drive. > Well few hours later I happiely rebooted my machine and > found that all works fine and now I could Install DOS > again on some free space on first drive... > After the DOS format DOS made it's installation and ... > NOW When I try to chose DOS from FreeBSD loader's menu > it simply does nothing...:-(. > > Could anybody explain me what happend??? > Thanx for any help. Under DOS run FDISK and make sure that your DOS primary partition is selected as active. After you changed the partitions this was removed and must be re-enabled Michael G. ------------------------------------------------------------ Brought to you by the letters "O" and "S" and the number "2" Live FreeBSD... or Die! COBOL...the language of business! ----------------------------------