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Date:      Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:46:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Boot troubles
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.10.9907112045340.37787-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.net>
In-Reply-To: <37891204.A04A398A@3-cities.com>

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On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Kent Stewart wrote:

> According to my rules, it isn't the new drive. You have something else
> that is broken otherwise the boot floppies would have worked.

I downloaded the 3.1 floppies, and they worked great.  For some reason,
though, the 3.2 floppies didn't like my system.  However, someone already
helped me out and solved the problem -- turned out that it *was* the new
drive.  Specifically, it was the fact that it was larger than 2 gigs,
which the BTX loader apparently has problems with.  He suggested using a
"dangerously dedicated" partition, which I did, and that solved the
problem.

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