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To: Arabinda Bose <axb00@arrowsmith.com>
cc: hackers@FreeBsd.org, questions@FreeBsd.org, abose@sceptre.arrowsmith.com
Subject: Re: Problem during FreeBSD installation 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Aug 1995 09:25:00 CDT."
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:56:41 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>   I partitioned my hard disk for DOS (400 Meg) and kept 412 Meg
>   for BSD. I installed the DOS on the machine first and then 
>   started installing FreeBSD from the boot diskette. 
>   I went through the partioning of file systems fine, allocated

You need to specify the geometry by hand with the `(G)eometry' option -
clearly FreeBSD has guessed it wrong.  You have NOT blown away your
boot code, you just have a geometry mismatch.

Please see the notes in the troubleshooting guide (it's on the boot
floppy, please read it) for what to do now.

					Jordan

>   swap space on 'b' and fixed the mount points for /, /usr, etc
>   and did "Proceed". It said, this will erase your hard disk,
>   proceed Y/N, I did a Yes and then it asked to reboot. After
>   the reboot, it came up with two options 
>    F1 DOS
>    F2 FreeBSD
>    Nothing happened when I press F1 or F2. 
> 
>    I deleted the BSD and tried to install DOS again but it gave the
>    similar prompt(F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD) during the reboot. I guess my 
>    boot record on the hard disk has got corrupted. Can you tell me 
>    how to get back again if I want to change my boot program on the 
>    harddrive ?
> 
>    I tried to format the "C" drive, it didn't help.
> 
>    Thanks in advane
> 
>    -- Arabinda Bose