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	I had the same problem on my PII when I installed 2.2.6-RELEASE.
How big is the scsi drive on your machine? On mine the drive is 8Gig and I
think that was the problem. My way around it was to make two freebsd
partitions which is probably not idea since I hate to see
F1     BSD
F2     BSD
prompt every time I reboot (which should be very very rare, but still). :)

-- Yan

Jan Koum                  jkb@best.com |  "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve  |   to go home in the dark."

On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Steven Fletcher wrote:

>Greetings............
>
>I've just installed FreeBSD 3.0 on a machine with 2 Pro's and 256 MB
>ram, on a SCSI disk. When attemping to boot, I simply receive the
>following error:
>
>Read error
>
>That's it. If I put the 3.0 boot floppy into the drive, I can send the
>boot options to be:
>
>0:sd(0,a)kernel
>
>And all is well, I can boot up with no problems. However, I'd like to
>be able to boot off the harddisk (The partiton is active) without any
>user intervention. Could anyone tell me why this is happening, and
>possibly on how to fix it?
>
>Thanks;
>
>-Steven Fletcher (steven@shellnet.co.uk)
>
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