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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:42:53 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Shishir K. Ramam" <sramam@cstp.umkc.edu>
To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
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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
> 
this was the fix. now i know what to do. am not too sure why? thanks.
-shishir



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