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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!dbased.nuo.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!ryn.mro4.dec.com!gidday.enet.dec.com!ashley From: ashley@gidday.enet.dec.com (STEPHEN ASHLEY) Subject: 386bsd HELP laptop back to DOS 5.0 H/Disk prob Message-ID: <1992Dec11.163609.9644@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Sender: news@ryn.mro4.dec.com (USENET News System) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Date: 12 DEC 92 03:36:08 AES Lines: 22 HELP HELP, Fellow 386bsd people, I am in a bit of a bind and need help on this one. I tryed (for a lark) installing 386bsd on to my laptop tonight, it is a 386sx/16 olivetti V16. Anyway the install got creamed 3/4's of the way through the extract, I had to go to work. I took the laptop to work with me and decided to reinstall DOS 5.0 back on to the hard drive. But I can't get the thing to boot of the hard drive even after several 'fdisk' sesions and diffrent combniations of primary and extended DOS drives. I keep getting this message :- File not found - didn't load 386bsd, will try 386bsd.alt File not found - didn't load 386bsd.alt, will try 386bsd.old File not found - didn't load 386bsd.old, will try boot The hard drive on the laptop is a conner 40meg 2 1/2" IDE drive, I have also tryed some disk diags to read and write all sectors but no luck yet. I do want to get DOS 5.0 loaded again, any idears out there ? Thanks for reading this, Stephen ASHLEY Alice SPrings Out Back Australia.