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Subject: Just installed FreeBSD; won't boot.
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Greetings.

Let me begin by describing my system. It is a 486DX4/100 with 16M RAM. 
There are two IDE drives -- a 1.2G primary with win95 and Linux, and a 
120M slave on which I installed FreeBSD 2.1.0

The problem: When I boot my computer, OS-BS comes up as a boot menu. I 
select the FreeBSD partition off of that menu, and am immediately 
presented with the FreeBSD BOOT: prompt, just as I should be. But the 
problem is, if I press enter or let the 5 seconds run out, | appears, but 
doesn't spin, and it just hangs. I have to cold boot.

Any ideas?

Thanks.