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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: MBR problems :( Date: 24 Jan 1995 05:21:09 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3g22o5$k0h@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <D2IGFx.H8z@serval.net.wsu.edu> <3g3u4a$99j@tipellium.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3g3u4a$99j@tipellium.apana.org.au>, Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au> wrote: >When you installed, you told Fdisk to use the whole disk for BSD, and then >you wrote the bootmanager. The two are actually incompatible; the bootmanager >only works properly when you have multiple partitions under the DOS-style >partitioning scheme. My answer was fdisk /mbr under DOS, and reinstall. Just to note: The new sysinstall won't allow you to do this; it will yelp at you if you attempt to install the boot manager with only one operating system on the disk. It will also refuse to label it if you don't specify a BSD partition at all. Jordan