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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:24:04 EDT
Subject: Re: Loader problems 
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In a message dated 8/29/01 7:34:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
msmith@freebsd.org writes:

> the second
>  >  
>  > partition seems fine.  Backspacing over the characters and hitting 
return 
>  > manually and the machine boots normally.  Both partitions are using the 
> BTX 
>  > loader v1.01
>  > 
>  > Any ideas?
>  
>  Sounds like you're getting garbage in the keyboard buffer. 8(
>  
>  How new is the motherboard/BIOS?
>  

Also, if there was garbage in the keyboard buffer, wouldnt it affect both 
partiions (and not just the fist as in this case)?

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