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From: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
To: "Shishir K. Ramam" <sramam@cstp.umkc.edu>
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Subject: Re: help installing WD hard drive...
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> the drive in question   : WDC AC33100 (3 gig hard drive)
> the geomwtry		: 6136 Cyl | 16 heads | 63 S/T | 512 T/S
> the problem		: on installing FreeBSD, and rebooting, i come up
> 			  with  "F?" and things stall. I checked the
> 			  geometry and set it right. but this keeps
> 			  repeating.
 
	Take a DOS boot disk with FDISK on it. Boot off the disk. At the 
A: prompt type 'fdisk /mbr' That should fix your problem.



					Rick

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