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From: j.s.greenland@eee.salford.ac.uk (Sojan)
Subject: Re: shutdown -todos???
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In article <2p7282$omt@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> s9407356@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (J. David Rodgers) writes:
>From: s9407356@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (J. David Rodgers)
>Subject: shutdown -todos???
>Date: 21 Apr 1994 23:29:06 GMT


>I am new to 386BSD, having just installed 386BSD
>release 0.1. Everything appears to work fine, except 
>for the shutdown command to active my dos partition.

>Example:
>Using the command
>./shutdown -todos   (in the /usr/distbin directory)
>results in the message
>"Can't make dos bootable".

>As I use dos and UNIX fairly equally, this problem
>is very annoying (to say the least!).

>Can anyone offer some advice as to what the problem
>might be, and/or some suggestions on how to get
>around it.

>Thanks

>Dave

get Pboot (from most 386BSD distribution sites in utils/) or Booteasy and then 
you won't need to use shutdown -todos since you choose which partition to boot 
at power up time.

Jake
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