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Date:      Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:49:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Yingjun He <hey@tuns.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cannot boot
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980114144935.27200K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980114101103.00956240@newton.ccs.tuns.ca>

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On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Yingjun He wrote:

> I just installed FreeBSD2.25 using ftp. After I installed the system
> including X windows I cannot boot from drive C (which is the only
> hard dis I have). It prompt me with the error message 
>          " Drive not ready
>            Insert System Disk and reboot"
> I don't understand if drive not ready how can I got everything copied
> to the drive? Maybe the hard disk was not set to bootable? I never have
> this kind of problem before. I tried several times and I got the same
> error messages. Thank you for your help!

1.  Insert a DOS boot floppy and boot it.
2.  Run FDISK.
3.  Set the active partition to one on your first disk.

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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