From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 13 9: 2:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from firewall.ousd.k12.ca.us (firewall.ousd.k12.ca.us [198.94.127.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E715F14F3F for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 09:02:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chenx@ousd.k12.ca.us) Received: from ousdmail.ousd.k12.ca.us by firewall.ousd.k12.ca.us (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA06944; Thu, 13 May 1999 09:00:13 -0700 Received: from MIS70 by ousdmail.ousd.k12.ca.us (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA25892; Thu, 13 May 1999 08:49:12 -0700 Message-ID: <000701be9d58$d90021e0$8a415ec6@MIS70.ousd.k12.ca.us> From: "Xiang B. Chen" To: Subject: Boot problem Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:54:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE9D1E.29293A20" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE9D1E.29293A20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Whe I'm installing FreeBSD in a 486 PC. After loading files from an FTP = machine and enterred the root password, the machine automatically = restart. The screen shows:=20 F1...BSD Default: F1 F!...BSD Default: F? From there I cannot go anywhere. Could you give me some glues or = instructions as for why it is doing this and how to make my FREEBSD boot = correctly. Thanks Xiang chenx#ousd.k12.ca.us =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE9D1E.29293A20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

Whe I'm installing FreeBSD in a 486 = PC. After=20 loading files from an FTP machine and enterred the root password, the = machine=20 automatically restart. The screen shows:

F1...BSD

Default: F1

F!...BSD

Default: F?

From there I cannot go anywhere. = Could you give=20 me some glues or instructions as for why it is doing this and how to = make my=20 FREEBSD boot correctly.

Thanks

Xiang

chenx#ousd.k12.ca.us =20

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