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Date:      Sun, 16 Apr 1995 21:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jianyu Wang <jian@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   FreeBSD Installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.950416210337.26217A-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>

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Dear Sir:

	I followed your FreeBSD installation instruction. After I 
partitioned the hard disk for DOS and FreeBSD, I wrote the MBR (B)ootcode 
out to the disk and finished the initial installation process.  When I 
reboot the system, it gives me two operating systems to boot, no matter 
which OS I select, it doesn't boot.  I have to use MS-DOS floppy to boot 
the system.  When I run the fdisk, it gives me the wrong total disk 
space. But if I go to the BIOS setup to select operating system to [DOS] 
and run fdisk, it gives the right total disk space.  The geometry is 
1416,16,63.  Now the system can't boot from the hard disk.  My system is 
Gateway 2000 DX486, total hard disk space 730MB. Could you please give me 
instructions to correct this problem so that I can boot either DOS or 
FreeBSD from the hard disk?

	Thank you very much for your help.


Sincerely,
	
jian



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