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From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
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On Wednesday 23 May 2001 02:38, David S. Geirsson wrote:
> I have an old HP Vectra p75 machine here. For some reason, it refuses to
> boot after I install FreeBSD on it. The win95 installation that was on it
> when I got it booted fine. The FreeBSD install booted fine from the
> bootdisk, and it installed without a hitch. After the BIOS, nothing
> happens. Just the blinking cursor on the screen.
>
>
> Any ideas? I'm completely stomped.

Did you make the drive "Dangerously Dedicated"? I have the same machine and 
it won't boot unless it sees a dos partition. So you can't use that option. 
If that doesn't work go back to fdisk and reinstall the boot loader.

Beech

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