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From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: how do I undo 386BSD boot blocks?
Date: 11 Feb 1993 23:00:32 GMT
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In article <C2B059.JCA@space.physics.uiowa.edu> ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) writes:
>I just received a nice new machine to run 386BSD on, so my old machine
>is reverting back to DOS.  Unfortunately after running fdisk, format,
>and installing DOS on the drive it fails to boot and appears to still
>have the 386BSD boot blocks.  I know this has been asked before, but

fdisk /mbr 

That will over-write the master boot record to prepare it for DOS.

>(Maybe this should be added to the FAQ?)

Actually it is in INSTALL.NOTES.

Paul Southworth
Computer Systems Consultant
UM - Ann Arbor
pauls@umich.edu