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Subject: i386/22961: New installation of 4.1.1 won't boot
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>Number:         22961
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       New installation of 4.1.1 won't boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 19 12:10:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew Grillet
>Release:        4.1.1
>Organization:
Quickstart Technology Ltd
>Environment:
Not available 
It is a pentium 150 with two IDE drives (both mode 4)
It was running FreeBSD 3.4 and earlier versions.

>Description:
I installed directly from the ISO image I downloaded. No errors
were reported. 

At the reboot, I get the btx menu (F1, F3, F5)but when I select 
one it just beeps. Even the 'perfectly good' :-)
DOS 5 partition won't boot any more. (Fixable by Fdisk /mbr)

I have reinstalled several times, repartitioning, new labels, etc
Same result every time.





>How-To-Repeat:
AFAICT the problem is unavoidable on my system. 
Install always fails. (Unwilling to try on other 
machines!)
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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