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Hi everybody !

I finally was able to do an installation (the labeling part was a little
confusing until I RTFM !)... but on reboot, the os loader installed fails
to boot FreeBSD (but it can boot my NT alright).

The message I get is : Error loading operating system

I have two options at time :
F1
F5 (disk1)

F1 boots NT
F5 gives me 'Error loading operating system' right away.

I wish it would be a more helpfull error message....

My setup is the following

My install medium is a FreeBSD 4.3 CD (but started the installation with
boot floppies).
The machine is a dual P-233MMX, 384mb ram, 2 scsi disks (with NT4 on first
disk)
Motherboard is and Intel DK440LX, embeded scsi controler aic-7895)

I have 2 scsi disks :

da0 : Windows NT 4 server
da1 :
     2gig fat16 partition
     2gig NTFS partition
     4gig FreeBSD partition

I did a 'Standard Installation', boot loader installed on first disk only.
I used Auto Partitioning for the FreeBSD slice (da1s3).
I remember setting the partition bootable.

Is this a problem of the 1024th cylinder or something ?

I am completely new to FreeBSD but I know my way around Unix. I usually
work with Slackware Linux (which I know well) and some SunOS.

Thanks a lot !

Alex :)


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