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From: drinnen@deakin.OZ.AU (Phil Shead)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: What's NetBSD done to my hard disk?
Date: 2 Jan 1994 07:55:13 GMT
Organization: Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
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 Just tried out X on my entire 102 MB hard disk in prep
for a new 340 MB disk. Happy with life I turn back to
dos to get back in the flow. Copy stuff back. Hit reset.
Wham, no bootable partition. Check this forgot to make
active partition. set to active, reformat, copy dos
stuff back. reset. Same problem, OK, grab os2 
disk, load the os2 partition editor. Hmm, say partition
bootable. delete, recreate, set bootable, reset.
format from dos. reset. Nothing. 
 So anybody know the secret?. The disk is accesible but
booting from floppy is not my idea of fun.