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Date:      Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:37:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        jivko@ijs.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 off the Jan. Walnut Creek CD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960724213637.226I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199607240745.AAA02256@ijs.com>

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On Wed, 24 Jul 1996 jivko@ijs.com wrote:

> I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on a 486 machine with 16M RAM, 154x
> SCSI card and 1G drive (2.0 was running just fine on the same machine)
> and here is the problem: 
> 
> The installation goes very smoothly without any error messages, 
> however when at the end I exit from the installation utility the 
> machine cannot load from the HD at all. I looked into the partition 
> table on the HD and was surprised to see that at the location pointed 
> to by the 'Active Partition' record I could find nothing but 'F6'es.

Did you RESET the active slice flag to a valid slice?  The install utility
will sometimes remove 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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