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Date:      Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:00:30 +0000
From:      "Michael G." <mikegoe@ibm.net>
To:        Maxim Surdu <surdu@inet.ru>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installing DOS problems..:-)))) (but FreeBSD question!)
Message-ID:  <199709271501.PAA23710@out2.ibm.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970927171855.446A-100000@xyz140.inet.ru>

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> 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.
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