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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:10:39 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        Gieger@aol.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Boot crash.
Message-ID:  <199503190910.KAA08138@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <950318121449_53401019@aol.com> from "Gieger@aol.com" at Mar 18, 95 12:14:51 pm

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As Gieger@aol.com wrote:
> 
> ... It reboots & comes up with the BSD boot screen along with the "Boot:"
> prompt. If I hit return, type '?', type '/kernal-c'
> or anything it locks up. Normally there is a little twirling "|" symbol
> but it just prints "|" and locks solid. My bios geometry matches BSD, I did
> write the boot code.

Looks like nothing from your root file system is being found.  Either
of the above commands is trying to read something from there (`?'
attempts to read the directory, and the other commands want to read
the kernel file).

What's the geometry you are using?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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