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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 16:52:46 -0800
From: Yixin Jin <yjin@CS.UCLA.EDU>
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Hi folks,

My freebsd has some problems after I used one DOS boot disk to boot the
machine. At the first time, the boot manager can find BSD partition, but
whenever it started extract the kernel, it halted. Then I let the boot
manager be rewriten, this time, whenever I press F1 key it just cannot
proceed, and keep giving me boot manager prompt again and again.

Could anyone figure out why it happens? The funny thing is that I can
use floppy to boot the freebsd on hard driver, just by typing
"sd(0,1)/kernel".

Thanks

-- 
Yixin Jin
UCLA, Computer Science Dept.