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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: help wanted with disappearing disklabel
Message-ID: <1992Aug26.045249.20185@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
References: <1992Aug01.172005.399@bigcomm.gun.de> <1992Aug26.034900.25553@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 04:52:49 GMT
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In article <1992Aug26.034900.25553@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
>I had the same problems. My attempts at manual installation and trying to
>install DOS partitions failed because I cannot install DOS at the first
>partition.
> 386bsd tries to use the first partition as the root device even when
>it is labelled as wd0c .
Install DOS as the second partition, or:
> I do not know how the root device is chosen.
modify asboot so it looks at the correct offset for the 386BSD boot track.
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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