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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:12:47 -0500
From:      "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" <mraught@acm.org>
To:        Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives
Message-ID:  <3DDC5D3F.1080700@acm.org>
References:  <001001c290f2$4a8cebf0$6401a8c0@aynlaptop0>

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Andrew Y Ng wrote:

>Hi all, I shutdown FreeBSD and changed my harddrive and booted up Win2K this
>morning (needed Windoze for something real quick). I put the FreeBSD
>harddrive back and it wouldn't boot, it got stuck at the F1 boot0 prompt.
>Like it couldn't find the MBR or something. How do I get it to boot again?
>This is weird. Maybe I didn't shut it down correctly this morning.
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>/ayn
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Did you check the HD parameters in the BIOS? I seem to recall this 
happening when the geometry is entered (or detected) incorrectly.

-mark



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