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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: clean install won't boot from hard drive... 
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"Marc G. Fournier" wrote in message ID
<Pine.NEB.3.93.960418145631.6921E-100000@freebsd.ki.net>:
> 	I just installed a third machine onto our network, and after
> a nice clean Install, I can't boot up off of the hard drive.  I can
> boot by using the floppy and then booting from sd(0,a)/kernel though...

> 	..so I figured i messed up my boot blocks or something.

> 	I've got the machine upgraded to 2.1-stable now, and am wondering
> if there is any way of fixing this without a complete re-install?

Umm. What happens when you boot of the hard drive? Does it get to the
`Boot:' prompt and refuse to find/load the kernel? How big is the root
partition?

Gary