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From: "Timo Geusch" <Timo_Geusch@award.de>
To: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Rachel Willmer" <rachel@intertrader.com>
Subject: Re: trouble getting machine to boot
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 16:20:54 +0200
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Rachel,
this may be a dumb question, but
1. Do you have other OSs installed that may require a boot manager
installation ?
2. Did you set the FreeBSD partition to bootable.

Timo Geusch
Software engineer
AWARD Software International, Inc. (Europe)
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From: Rachel Willmer <rachel@intertrader.com>
To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Monday, July 07, 1997 3:48 PM
Subject: trouble getting machine to boot

>I've just installed freebsd V2.2 on a 486. Installation has gone fine
apart
>from one thing, it won't boot automatically on power-up.
>
>If I use the Freebsd boot disk to manually boot 0:wd(0,a)/kernel, it
works
>fine.
>
>Otherwise, it just sits there like a dead thing.
>
>Any pointers most gratefully received...
>
>Thanks
>Rachel
>
>