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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, michael dorin wrote:

> 
> I just went thorugh and installed freebsd 2.1.6 on a new harddrive.
> It just won't boot.
> 
> The boot manager comes up...I select F1, and it still does not boot.

Is this on a dedicated disk, or are there other bootable OSs there?

If yes:

The geometry was misdetected.  (not likely)

If no:
Why are you running booteasy?  You don't need it if you only have one
disk.  If you do need it though, reinstall FreeBSD, but this time make a
small DOS partition on the disk, delete it, and install FreeBSD over it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major