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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2000 04:09:46 -0500
From:      "Donn Miller" <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
To:        <stable@freebsd.org>, "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>
Subject:   Re: 4.2 Not booting problem
Message-ID:  <000501c06676$c57495a0$ba229a18@zbzoom.net>
References:  <E146qlh-0001rG-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To: <stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 4:03 AM
Subject: 4.2 Not booting problem

> I installed 4.2 on my test machine.
> A Tulip P90. 48MB Ram, 2Gig disk.
> Installation went smoothly.
> But, when re-booting, nothing appeared on the screen.

Did it say "invalid partition table"?

> My final solution was to installa small linux system on it, then
> install BSD and use Lilo. This worked fine.

Sounds like you forgot to set the root partition "active".

- Donn



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