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Date:      Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:11:34 -0700
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Why boot manger displays '#' symbol when I press buttons and doesn't boot?
Message-ID:  <4AE0AE66.9020701@rawbw.com>

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In an attempt to install FreeBSD I wrote /boot/boot0 on the harddrive 
which already has Windows on it plus free space.

Commands 'fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad4' output ended with these 
messages:
Should we write new partition table? [n] y
fdisk: Class not found

After this when I boot from this HD it displays the usual:
F1 Win
F2
F3
F4 FreeBSD
...

But when I press any button it just prints the character '#' and does 
nothing.
If I don't type anything '#' characters appear by itself after some time 
and again nothing happens.

I suspect that fdisk message 'Class not found' is related.
What should I do to make FreeBSD boot manager to work?

Yuri



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