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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 'no bootable partition' message
Date: 3 Jul 1997 17:57:23 GMT
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gbernard@hotmail.com (Greg Bernard) wrote:

>   I set up LILO to boot BSD, but yet when I try to
> boot the disk I get the message 'no bootable partition'.  Yet if I put
> the BSD boot diskette in, I can boot just fine.  Any ideas how I can
> make the disk bootable again.  I tried disklabel -B wd0 to no avail...

disklabel -B is unrelated, it's for the BSD bootstrap.  You're caught
by LILO (or the MBR on the disk) not willing to boot your BSD in the
first place.

Run fdisk on this disk (from any operating system you want), and mark
the BSD slice bootable.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)