Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:30:45 -0700 From: "Mehran" <mehran@gci.net> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: After installation freeBSD won't run Message-ID: <000a01c01799$b2531b80$f92aed18@anchorageak.net>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C0175F.05B12000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello: I have installed freeBSD 4.0 from CD (BSD power pack) 8 or 9 times so = far. Each time the installation goes fine, but when the system boots for = the first time, it gives me an error message: " Preparing machine to load FreeBSD/386 ..... Read error" and thats all I get. I have dedicated whole hard drive to freebsd. It = seems its looking for something in drive "A". I am using bootmagic, = since I have Win 98 in another hard drive. Hard drive size is about 4.2 = Gigs and I have 196 megs of ram. Thanks for your help. Mehran ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C0175F.05B12000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#b8b8b8> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have installed freeBSD 4.0 from CD = (BSD power=20 pack) 8 or 9 times so far. Each time the installation goes fine, = but when=20 the system boots for the first time, it gives me an error = message:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>" Preparing machine to load=20 FreeBSD/386</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>.....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Read error"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> and thats all I get. I have = dedicated =20 whole hard drive to freebsd. It seems its looking for something in = drive=20 "A". I am using bootmagic, since I have Win 98 in another hard drive. = Hard drive=20 size is about 4.2 Gigs and I have 196 megs of ram. Thanks for your help. = Mehran</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C0175F.05B12000-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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