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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!panix!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!zib-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!ais-m1-016.salford.ac.uk!j.s.greenland From: j.s.greenland@eee.salford.ac.uk (Sojan) Subject: Re: shutdown -todos??? Message-ID: <j.s.greenland.6.000D962C@eee.salford.ac.uk> Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Nntp-Posting-Host: ais-m1-016.salford.ac.uk Organization: University of Salford Computing Society X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] References: <2p7282$omt@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Distribution: global Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 12:35:06 GMT Lines: 40 In article <2p7282$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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ j.s.greenland@eee.salford.ac.uk "Mudding - The downfall of many a university education." "I am not a Frog, I am a free Womble" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------