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Date:      Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:28:36 -0400
From:      "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
To:        "Marc Freeman" <marcf@bigpond.net.au>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD installation problem
Message-ID:  <200207211528.36847.bts@babbleon.org>
In-Reply-To: <001a01c22bbd$1fc654a0$3bbd8490@nsw.bigpond.net.au>
References:  <000801c22bb8$c98f8c40$3bbd8490@nsw.bigpond.net.au> <20020715042239.F2B13BB2C@sakura.fake.com> <001a01c22bbd$1fc654a0$3bbd8490@nsw.bigpond.net.au>

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On Monday 15 July 2002 01:04 am, you wrote:
| sorry i did not explain properly, it just hangs at this message.
|
| F1    FreeBSD
| Default: F1
| -
|
| hitting F1 or enter does not start the loading process.
| so what could be the cause of the problem?

Unfortunately, I don't have any idea.

Anybody else?

| marc
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
| To: "Marc Freeman" <marcf@bigpond.net.au>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
| Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 2:22 PM
| Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation problem
|
| > Well, the message is perfectly normal & correct.
| >
| > It should, however, boot up FreeBSD 10 seconds later, or immediately if
|
| you
|
| > hit F1 or Enter.
| >
| > So are we to gather that it hangs instead?  Is that correct?
| >
| > On Monday 15 July 2002 12:33 am, Marc Freeman wrote:
| > | Hi i am trying to installed freeBSD 4.6. but on booting i keep on
|
| getting
|
| > | the message
| > |
| > | F1    FreeBSD
| > | Default: F1
| > | -
| > | i have read the FAQ's which say to put a small dos partition at the
| > | beginning of the drive but this has not worked. only giving a - (dash)
|
| at
|
| > | startup. any suggestions would be most appreciable & thanks in advance
| > | marc:-)
| >
| > --
| > Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . .   bts@babbleon.org (personal)
| >                                         http://www.babbleon.org
| >
| > http://www.eff.org                     
| > http://www.programming-freedom.org

-- 
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