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Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:29:15 -0800
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>> Does anyone know of a way I can get THIS system stabilized?
>
>Turn the green mode crap off!  It's utterly unacceptable for pretty
>much any UNIX system you can name (including Linux) to have one of its
>drives suddently decide to take a vacation.  This thing must have some
>BIOS option for disabling it.

   Or perhaps a hardware jumper?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project