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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd HELP laptop back to DOS 5.0 H/Disk prob
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.042929.28504@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <1992Dec11.163609.9644@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 04:29:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.163609.9644@ryn.mro4.dec.com> ashley@gidday.enet.dec.com (STEPHEN ASHLEY) writes:
- > HELP HELP,
- > Fellow 386bsd people, I am in a bit of a bind and need help on
- >this one. I tryed (for a lark) installing 386bsd on to my laptop tonight,
- >it is a 386sx/16 olivetti V16. Anyway the install got creamed 3/4's of the
- >way through the extract, I had to go to work. I took the laptop to work
- >with me and decided to reinstall DOS 5.0 back on to the hard drive. But
- ^^^^^^^
- >I can't get the thing to boot of the hard drive even after several 'fdisk'
- >sesions and diffrent combniations of primary and extended DOS drives. I
- >keep getting this message :-
- >
- > File not found - didn't load 386bsd, will try 386bsd.alt
- > File not found - didn't load 386bsd.alt, will try 386bsd.old
- > File not found - didn't load 386bsd.old, will try boot
- >
- > The hard drive on the laptop is a conner 40meg 2 1/2" IDE drive,
- >I have also tryed some disk diags to read and write all sectors but no
- >luck yet. I do want to get DOS 5.0 loaded again, any idears out there ?
-
- DOS 5.0 command to overwrite master boot record:
-
- fdisk /mbr
-
- For non DOS-5.0 DOS-heads:
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- Instructions in README and INSTALL documents.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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