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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:47:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Aleksandar Obradovic <alex@montenegro.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with the drive
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Aleksandar Obradovic wrote:

> I used to have perfectly fine 2.2.6 system running on one SCSI2 drive with
> partitions
> sd0s1    DOS
> sd0s2a  /
> sd0s2b  /SWAP
> sd0s2e  /VAR
> sd0s2f   /USR
> 
> I had boot set up so it gives me options
> F1...DOS
> F2...FreeBSD
> 
> My bios was set up to boot from SCSI first and then from C.
> 
> Then I needed to add WinNT to the box (business requirement, not a personal
> preference) so I slapped in another drive trying not to touch my FreeBSD
> drive. I put in 4 gig IDE drive, configured BIOS to boot from C first and
> then SCSI, and installed NT fine.

Whoa, hold it here cowboy.  Going from SCSI-only to IDE-SCSI will freak
out most BIOSen.  I'd suggest using a SCSI drive instead if you have one,
it'll save you lots of grief.  

> However, when I switched back the BIOS to boot from SCSI first in order to
> boot my FreeBSD, I got the old menu
> F1...DOS
> F2...FreeBSD
> but this time FreeBSD would not boot any more, it would just hang.

Where?

> all I see is lost+found directory that has many many #9999 entries, where 9
> can be any digit.

That's not good.  What did you do?!?

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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