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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 96 00:33:53 EST
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Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 off the Jan. Walnut Creek CD
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That must be something very simple, but I don't seem to be able to 
figure it out :(

I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on a 486 machine with 16M RAM, 154x
SCSI card and 1G drive (2.0 was running just fine on the same machine)
and here is the problem: 

The installation goes very smoothly without any error messages, 
however when at the end I exit from the installation utility the 
machine cannot load from the HD at all. I looked into the partition 
table on the HD and was surprised to see that at the location pointed 
to by the 'Active Partition' record I could find nothing but 'F6'es.

I think I tried everything I can think of, however the results were 
always the same. At the end I even decided to let the  installation 
utility partition and label the HD but that did  not change anything.
Then I thought that it might be a problem with the machine so I moved 
the HD to another PC and  tried again - same result.

The only thing I did not try was changing the HD (Quantum Fireball) 
but unfortunately this is the only disk I can play with at this point.

What am I missing? Please help!

Thanks!


Jivko