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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: help wanted with disappearing disklabel
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <1992Aug01.172005.399@bigcomm.gun.de> <1992Aug26.034900.25553@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 04:52:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.034900.25553@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
- >I had the same problems. My attempts at manual installation and trying to
- >install DOS partitions failed because I cannot install DOS at the first
- >partition.
- > 386bsd tries to use the first partition as the root device even when
- >it is labelled as wd0c .
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- Install DOS as the second partition, or:
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- > I do not know how the root device is chosen.
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- modify asboot so it looks at the correct offset for the 386BSD boot track.
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- Terry Lambert
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- terry@icarus.weber.edu
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