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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!yetti!g-majar
  2. From: g-majar@cs.yorku.ca (Bernard Majarais)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: Re: Removing shoelace
  5. Message-ID: <1549@yetti.UUCP>
  6. Date: 8 Nov 92 03:01:12 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: yetti.1549
  8. References: <1540@yetti.UUCP>
  9. Sender: news@yetti.UUCP
  10. Distribution: world
  11. Organization: York University, Dept. of Computer Science
  12. Lines: 9
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  15. Just doing a followup to my own question. The solution is to use Dos 5.0's
  16. fdisk /mbr, where the /mbr is undocumented. What it basically does is
  17. rewrite the master boot record with the standard one.
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  19. Thanks to those who replied.
  20. -- 
  21. Bernie  (g-majar@cs.yorku.ca)    | If life is a highway then what should
  22.                 | the speed limit be?
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