Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:37:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: jivko@ijs.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 off the Jan. Walnut Creek CD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960724213637.226I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607240745.AAA02256@ijs.com>
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On Wed, 24 Jul 1996 jivko@ijs.com wrote: > 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. Did you RESET the active slice flag to a valid slice? The install utility will sometimes remove it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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