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On 08/09/2005, at 6:36 AM, Damon Blom wrote:

>
> Hi
>    Still no go.
>       will boot (very slowly) from external usb hard drive.
>           da0  maxtor scsi -0 device  194481 mb
>       will not boot
>           da1  hp digital drive 976 mb (whole disk)
>              da1s1a  /
>             da1s1d  /usr
>   I disabled hitachi drive and external maxtor drive
>       get
>            F1 Freebsd
>            F5 drive1
>       will not let me press enter
>           Phoenix Bios version F.35
>    Thank's (I can still mount it and r/w from it)
>            Damon

I would say, and this is just a guess, that the bios doesn't recognise
it as a bootable device or it is unable to find/use the boot block?