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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:11:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@phbtsus.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help!!!  Cannot get 2.2--961014-SNAP to boot!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961114211025.28188N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199611132225.OAA21477@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Wes Peters wrote:

> I've been trying for two days now to install this SNAPSHOT.  I've tried
> two different disk drives, WD 1.0 and 1.0 G IDE drives, on three
> different systems  (Gateway P5/90, Gateway 4DX2-66V, and generic
> 486/33).  In each case, I get the OS installed via the internet from
> ftp.freebsd.org, but when I reboot the boot manager gives me the
> F? prompt and cannot boot from the hard disk.

In all these cases, it is because the geometry is misdetected on the
target disk.  Try reinstalling, this time put a small DOS partition on the
disk, then delete it from the install program and put FreeBSD over it.

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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