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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:11:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        softweyr@xmission.com, wes@phbtsus.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Troubled FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961114221031.28188h-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199611140314.UAA00254@obie.softweyr.com>

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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Wes Peters wrote:

> I wrote earlier about having trouble installing the latest 2.2 SNAP
> over the net.  I've moved home now, and taken a hard drive with me,
> and now have the following situation:
> 
> My system at home has FreeBSD 2.1.5 installed on sd0.  I removed my
> wd0, which holds Win95, and put my drive from work in it's place.
> I installed 2.1.5-RELEASE from my scsi CD-ROM; everything went fine.
> When I reboot, however, I cannot boot from the IDE drive.  This is the
> same behavior I noted at work.

Hm, it would appear the boot block on the disk is damaged or something so
that the bootblocks don't appear.  What does fdisk report on the disk in
the way of partitions?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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