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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:03:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>
Subject: RE: Boot Won't !!!
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My guess is that the geometry of the disk is not what the BIOS thinks it is. Or
that the the geometry during install is not identical to what the BIOS thinks.
Or some combination of the two:)


/M
On 18-Oct-2001 Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
> OK - I'm stumped - and probably doing something real dumb...
> 
> I've installed 4.3 from the CD1 onto an Intel Tupelo MB, dual processor,
> with 2 18G Cheetah SCSI disks under AIC 7899 onboard chipset.  Nothing
> fancy - just plain standard installation. (512M swap slice and 17.5G / slice
> on Disk 0, didn't do Disk 1 yet)
> 
> Now she won't boot!  I tried with the standard MBR - stops saying "missing
> operating system".  I tried with FreeBSD Boot manager - I get:
> -------------------------------
> F1  FreeBSD
> F5  Drive 1
> 
> Default: F1 _
> 
> -------------------------------
> but its dead - pressing F1 or Enter (or anything else) yields NO RESPONSE.
> 
> Someone - PLEASE klobber me with the clue stick :)
> 
> Patrick.
> 
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