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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: 386bsd HELP laptop back to DOS 5.0 H/Disk prob
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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 04:29:29 GMT
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In article <1992Dec11.163609.9644@ryn.mro4.dec.com> ashley@gidday.enet.dec.com (STEPHEN ASHLEY) writes:
> 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 ?
DOS 5.0 command to overwrite master boot record:
fdisk /mbr
For non DOS-5.0 DOS-heads:
Instructions in README and INSTALL documents.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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