From: Chris Osborn (fozztexx_at_marauder.nvc.cc.ca.us)
Date: Fri Nov 03 1995 - 01:00:30 EST
On Nov. 02 95, 21:10 PST, "A J Annala" <a.annala_at_ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> This seems to be a common DOS problem on notebooks. I've never
> seen anyone have the same problem on desktop systems. There is
> what seems to be an undocumented flag on FORMAT, FDISK, or SYS --
> /WMB -- which means something like Write Master Boot (block). You
> probably need to run this command to boot from your hard drive.
Well, fdisk didn't like the /WMB option, but when I ran it, it
claimed there were no partitions at all on the disk. I told it to
go ahead and create a DOS partition (I'm installing NeXTSTEP, and
dedicating the entire drive to it), and when I rebooted, the drive
was happy to boot.
Of course, it trashed the NeXTSTEP that was there, so I had to
re-install that. After re-installing NeXTSTEP, the drive no longer
wants to boot. What's going on here?
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