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At 09:14 AM 2/23/2008, tonylabarbara@aol.com wrote:
>Now I get this when I try and log on:
>
>
>no /boot/loader
>
>All I want to do is rebuild the silly FBSD! Again, I fell into this silly=
=20
>loop when I tried to rebuild:
>
>-- Select Drive
>-- FDISK Partition Editor ("Q")
>-- Install Boot Manager
>
>and it just goes round, and round, and round. Can I just wipe the disk and=
=20
>start over? And why these strange problems? I=C2=B4m not connected to the=
=20
>Internet, so no possibility of virus. Never had this problem before.
>Help!
>Tony

Tony,

You don't mention what version you installing.

Be sure your BIOS is not set to not allow boot sector writes.  Some BIOS=20
have this set to thwart boot sector viruses.

A few things you can try:
You can boot FreeDOS and run booteasy from the tools folder on the FreeBSD=
=20
install CD to install the boot-manager.
Boot the FreeBSD install CD and use the emergency shell to check the hard=
=20
drive for the correct creation of the folders and kernel.

If all else fails you can reformat and start over.

         -Derek

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