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From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Creating a boot diskette that does nothing but boot from hard
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Peter Risdon writes:
> Assuming you are unable to boot after completing the installation, have
> you tried a third-party boot manager like GAG? GAG in particular is
> quite good at booting weird hardware and might very well find your
> installation and offer it when you run the setup.
>
> http://gag.sourceforge.net/

I tried it.  GaG boots, and finds the FreeBSD installation, and I
installed the installation it found as a boot option.  But when I
actually select FreeBSD from the boot menu, I get the same blank screen
as before.  GaG has no trouble booting from the hard disk, but FreeBSD
does.

-- 
Anthony