How do I re-format 'dangerously dedicated' drive?

[Mats Hellman]

Just to make sure.
You are using medias that your CD-ROM can read. I once almost ripped my hair
of when I couldn't get an old machine to boot from cd. At the time I was
using CD-RW medias and the drive was not able to read them. So if you are
using CD-RW try a CD-R.


Mats Hellman

On 11/21/05, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I don't have an MS-DOS floppy, and I think my CDROM isn't booting
> because the
> > HD is 'dangerously dedicated,' even though it is a bootable CD and the
> BIOS is
> > set to boot it first.
>
> Since it is set to boot the HD first and it has a boot sector, the BIOS
> doesn't want to get by that.
>
> So, you want to go in to the BIOS and reconfigure it to put the CD boot
> in front of the HD. Then you can either completely reinstall the most
> recent FreeBSD or use the fisit to rebuild something on that disk.
>
> The key thing is to have both floppy and CD in the boot order before
> the Hard Disk. Change that only if you really need to.
>
> ////jerry
>
> >
> > I want to totally clear my drive so I can reinstall from scratch from
> CDROM.
> > How can I do this?
> >
> > jm
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