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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 18:40:32 -0600
From: Xiaoping Jia <jia@cs.depaul.edu>
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Subject: FreeBSD installation problem
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I have trouble to boot BSD from hard disk. 

Try to installed on the second hard disk with a DOS partition and a FreeBSD
partition. 

Installed the boot manager. When boots I first choose F5 to disk 2 then 
choose F2 to boot FreeBSD. I got the initial boot message, similar to 
those when boot from boot floppy. When prompt with 

boot: 

I type 

hd(1,a)/kernel

Then it shows

|

and stuck. 

I read carefully the troubleshooting part. No help. I really appreciate 
your help. Regards.