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Date:      Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:58:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417145655.1625L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980417100102.A13418@iconnect.co.ke>

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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke wrote:

> I've got here a Gateway 2000, i486 66 MHz, 8 MB RAM, 515 MB IDE hard disk,
> 16 bit ISA NE2000 compatible network card (ed0). I installed FreeBSD 2.2.5
> on it over FTP from another BSDI server. The whole installation process
> went OK, and I used the entire hard disk for FreeBSD. However, on
> completing the install, when I rebooted, the system did not boot from hard
> disk. After the inital gateway 2000 prompt on screen, it gave me: 
> 
> read error

Oops.  I bet you specified dedicated mode for the disks; the Phoenix
(and/or Award) BIOS that Gateway uses can't deal with dedicated mode
disks.  Reinstall FreeBSD and answer `yes' to the question `Do you want to
make this disk compatible for future operating systems?'. 

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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