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From: liuyu@acf2.nyu.edu (liuyu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Help. Can't erase 386BSD active partition.
Date: 11 Jan 1994 07:22:31 GMT
Organization: New York University
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Message-ID: <2gtk3n$9dm@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>
NNTP-Posting-Host: acf2.nyu.edu

Hi,
  Long time ago, I installed 386BSD on a 120meg IDE drive.  Later I
erased 386BSD, at least I thought I did, and used the drive as a slave
IDE drive with two DOS partitions.  Now I'm trying to make the drive master 
IDE drive.  I erased both DOS partitions and created one active DOS
partiton. I format the drive with system (format c: /s ).  But when I
tried to boot from this drive, the old 386BSD pops out saying some
386BSD file was missing.  What's going on here?  If I boot from floppy
A: drive, I can go to C: and everything is there.

Can anyone tell me how to really erase the old 386BSD and make my
computer boot from C:? 

Thanks for any help.

PS, I searched through FAQ but didn't find anything related to this.