386 Boot problem

[Norman Kohn]

In article <42700018 at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> dpgerdes at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Approximately 60% of the time I boot the machine, it gets as far as 
>displaying the dots (............) and then hangs before displaying
>the  boot:  prompt.  The machine at that point requires a cold boot.
I recall having had a similar experience at one point, except for the
intermittent nature.  I rewrote the boot sectors by something link
Mkpart ... -i (or was it -b? look it up...) and solved my problem.
I have no idea how it got clobbered.  Your intermittent problem might
not be as easy.
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