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Date:      Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:59:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
To:        Stephan van Beerschoten <stephanb@whacky.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bootstrap: Machine keeps booting ? (boot0/mbr) ?
Message-ID:  <20030806165812.Q1788@korben.in.tern>
In-Reply-To: <20030806145221.GF50076@enigma.whacky.net>
References:  <20030806145221.GF50076@enigma.whacky.net>

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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:

> I installed the Bootloader for my dualboot machine, and when it comes up
> during boot:
>
> F1 ??
> F2 FreeBSD
>
> and I press F2, it autmatically reboots again. Please note it DID work
> yesterday, but somehow my laptops keeps booting on my now. (-CURRENT ?
> why?)

You probably have your swap partition as the first partition on your
drive.  Boot up to a fixit floppy and rewrite your boot blocks.  Then
re-cvsup to the very latest current, phk@ has already fixed this problem.

regards,
le

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