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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:31:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Odd Boot Menu
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904121131260.3957-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199904101911.PAA13832@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> Thursday, a co-worker installed 3.1 on his PC. Things went pretty well
> using a bootable CD I made by downloading off of freebsd.org, but
> there is one really weird thing going on at boot time.
> 
> He gets a menu at startup for choosing an OS,
> 
> F1 DOS
> F2 DOS
> F3 FreeBSD
> F4 Disk 0
> 
> With a strange (to me) final 'Disk 0' entry. What's stranger is that
> if he picks F1, F2, or F3, the machine just beeps and does nothing. He
> _has to_ pick F4. At this point, he gets the same menu printed again
> below the first,

This is a known bogon.  Update your boot0:
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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