Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:42:53 -0500 (CDT) From: "Shishir K. Ramam" <sramam@cstp.umkc.edu> To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help installing WD hard drive... Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.981009124124.3689B-100000@zeus> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.981009093408.28262B-100000@dsinw.com>
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> > the drive in question : WDC AC33100 (3 gig hard drive) > > the geomwtry : 6136 Cyl | 16 heads | 63 S/T | 512 T/S > > the problem : on installing FreeBSD, and rebooting, i come up > > with "F?" and things stall. I checked the > > geometry and set it right. but this keeps > > repeating. > > Take a DOS boot disk with FDISK on it. Boot off the disk. At the > A: prompt type 'fdisk /mbr' That should fix your problem. > > > > Rick > this was the fix. now i know what to do. am not too sure why? thanks. -shishir To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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