Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 20:01:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Wayne Tamagi <wtamagi@unixg.ubc.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot up problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960506200024.26792G-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960505001507.006c8acc@pop.unixg.ubc.ca>
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On Sat, 4 May 1996, Wayne Tamagi wrote: > >>FreeBSD Boot... > Use hd(1,a)/kernel to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed > etc... > > My computer would just hang and I can see the hard drive is running > constantly (red light on front is on). Can anyone advise me what I can do? Try making a small DOS partition on that disk, then install. You can erase the DOS partition in the fdisk editor if you don't want it. The DOS parition will telegraph the proper geometry to FreeBSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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