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Date:      Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:52:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BOOT.FLP
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960726185208.224G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31F64968.4EDD@alaska.net>

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On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, hmmm wrote:

> i have installed 2.1.5 BSD multiple time with multiple copies of 
> BOOT.FLP and find that on PC's with 2 hard drives, the MBR gets screwy 
> and you have to bang on multiple F keys, while the promt switches & flips 
> around, just to get your DOS going.  BSD never boots.  on my laptop with 
> 1 HD, i have no problem.

This usually points to a geometry problem.  Try putting a small DOS
partition on the disk then install FreeBSD on top of it.  the DOS slice
helps sysinstall to figure out the proper geometry.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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