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Date:      Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:21:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jeroen Schellart <v932492@si.hhs.nl>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960604101959.5366B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31B3E51E.290A@si.hhs.nl>

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On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Jeroen Schellart wrote:

> I have reinstalled FreeBSD and when I want to boot it I get the message
> "Not a bootable partition". I also tried to put my root filesystem on my
> first drive and the other partitions on my second drive. I have tried
> using System Commander, OS2 Boot Manager, your own bootmanager, nothing.

Check FDISK and make sure one of your partitions is labelled "active".  

I know for a fact that the OS/2 Boot Manager works.  Even to a second disk.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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