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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: freebsd doesnt boot from second (hard disk)drive!
To: NIMALIN@aol.com
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 19:38:40 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <960207083610_315073440@mail06.mail.aol.com> from "NIMALIN@aol.com" at Feb 7, 96 08:36:11 am
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 you have to select C: (wd0) to put the bootblock onto.

> 
> I use a 486/sx with adirve C of 80MB and a drive D of 500 MB,and installed
> freebsd 2.0.5 succesfully to 300MB of drive D (inDOS terms).But when I boot
> the system it directly goes to DOS as it knows nothing about my BSD.during
> the installation ichose the easy boot option.Even when I tried to boot with
> boot floppy with wd(1,a)/kernel command it didn't change.Please help me.
> I'm very sad!
> Writing to hackers after "Rroberto@keltia.freenix.fr'S" advice.
> please reply as soon as possibe to my email:NIMALIN@aol.com
> thanks.
> 
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