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Date:      Sat, 6 Jan 1996 23:35:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Blair Schmittel <blair@strech.cyber-naut.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Everything messed up..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960106233508.1134B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199601070601.XAA11105@strech.cyber-naut.com>

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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




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