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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:57:47 -0500
From:      Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
To:        Craig Beasland <craig@frontier.netnology.com.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Uh oh
Message-ID:  <36AD211B.63385098@confusion.net>
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.990126102453.5531A-100000@frontier.netnology.com.au>

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Yeah, I've heard of that problem but LBA is disabled already.  I;m still stuck.
Thanks for the suggestion though.

Craig Beasland wrote:

> Laurence,
>
> I have just had this same problem, and it turns out it was due to the mode
> of the hard drive.  I move the drive from one computer which was using
> auto mode to another which was using LBA mode.  It would not work until I
> set the second computer to Normal mode (I assume that the old computer
> Auto meant normal).  As soon as I changed it the problem disappeared.
>
> cheers
> craig
>
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Laurence Berland wrote:
>
> > I installed FBSD, sort of.  I posted this before, now I'm getting
> > desperate for help.  If anyone knows what to do please help!!!!
> >
> > we've installed freebsd.  We rebooted the system and the boot manager
> > appeared, prompting us to
> > F1 for ??? (which turned out is what it meant as win98)
> > F2 for FreeBSD
> >
> > We hit f2, and the manager just repeats its window.  It does this
> > always, and as of yet we've not been able to get to a BSD prompt at all,
> >
> > or to get it to even begin booting fbsd.  We've tried using the
> > installation software to rewrite the boot manager, but it doesn't change
> >
> > anything.  I'm completely stumped.  Do we need to reinstall FreeBSD?
> > Could it be that the error was because we made a second dos partition
> > with the boot manager also?  We deleted the second dos partition to try
> > and fix the problem, but nothing changes.  What do I do now?
> >
> > --
> > Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
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> >
> > I wish I knew, I wish I knew
> > what makes me, me, and what makes you, you.
> > It's just another point of view, ooo.
> > A state of mind I'm going through, yes.
> > So what I see is never true, ahhh.
> > -"I wish" Cat Stevens (Yusef Islam)
> > http://stuy.debate.net http://evilfred.home.ml.org yes they're different
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
I wish I knew, I wish I knew
what makes me, me, and what makes you, you.
It's just another point of view, ooo.
A state of mind I'm going through, yes.
So what I see is never true, ahhh.
-"I wish" Cat Stevens (Yusef Islam)
http://stuy.debate.net http://evilfred.home.ml.org yes they're different
icq #7434346                    aol imer E1101



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