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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!nntp.Stanford.EDU!ajax.Stanford.EDU!richard From: richard@ajax.Stanford.EDU (Richard Schiek) Subject: HELP --- convert a 386bsd partition back to DOS partition Message-ID: <1993Apr29.175309.6284@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 17:53:09 GMT Lines: 22 I've spent a few days trying to get 386bsd working on my system, and have decided to convert it back to DOS :-(. I had let 386bsd use my entire (100Mb) c: drive. Now if use DOS to make a new primary dos partition on the c: drive, and format it from dos (format c: /s /v) everything seems to work find. When I try to boot from that drive, my machine freezes saying: File not found - didn't load 386bsd, will try 386bsd.ald File not found - didn't load 386bsd.alt will try 386bsd.old How do I stop my system from even looking for 386bsd, and booting form the DOS files that "format c: /s /v" put there? It seems that 386bsd has written something on a bootsector of the hard drive that DOS doesn't change when with dos's format command. How do I get rid of this? Thanks Rich Schiek richard@chemeng.Stanford.EDU