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	Hello Doug,

	Yes, using the whole disk w/o making it dedicated is what I
tried after I sent out this eMail and it worked. I get this 

F1 . . . BSD
Default F1

prompt however every time I reboot now. Not that I can't live with it..
Wonder if I can use nextboot, disklabel or fdisk to fix it now..

-- Yan

Jan Koum                  jkb@best.com |  "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve  |   to go home in the dark."

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Doug White wrote:

>On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Jan Koum wrote:
>
>> 
>> 	Hmm.. I thought it wouldn't matter since Adaptec and it's BIOS
>> would handle it, no? Yes, the PC has Award BIOS I think. Not sure about
>> Adaptec's BIOS version however.
>
>It's not in the SCSI controller, it's in the system BIOS. 
>
>Your is affected.  Try reinstalling and this time set up the disk for use
>with other OSs (non-dangerously dedicated).  Should work this time.
>
>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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