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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 02:58:43 +0100
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From: Asgeir Halldorsson <sauri@islandia.is>
Subject: Re: can not boot???
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At 16:29 24.4.1996 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Hello list,
>
>I would greatly appriciate and be thankfull for any help.
>
>Problem: cannot boot to just installed FreeBSD
>
>Hardware:
>
>Mather:  DIGIS 486NL
>Processor: Intel 486SX 40MHz  (8Mb memory)
>HDD: IDE
>Controller: VESA local bus S1345 VL IDE&i/o controller
>Network card: Ether Elita 16 Ultra
>
>Please, send me a message if you find any of the components
>listed above unsupported by FreeBSD. From FreeBSD handbook
>I got only suspicious about Ethernet card.
>
>So I decided to proceed and installed FreeBSD from another
>harddrive (in minimal configuration). I allocated the whole
>450Mb disk for it and run Novice instalation. Installation 
>was completed succesfully.
>
>However I could not boot to FreeBSD from that disk. The
>default settings apparently were hanging the computer so
>I had to give it a cold reboot. If I tryed to specify some
>other command at the boot prompt, it allowed me to do so,
>but later kept on rebooting after each hit of Return key.
>I tryed different partition of the disk but that did not
>help either.
>
>Please help me to find a reason why it happened. Do I have
>to change the hardware or it can be solved by some other 
>actions, like proper configuration, may be.
>
>Thank you for your help in advance
>
>     Yegor
>
>

FreeBSD can't boot on Disk 2 i tryed that about 30 times :-(
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         Asgeir Halldorsson
         geiri@islandia.is
         sauri@islandia.is