Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:30:45 -0700 From: "Mehran" <mehran@gci.net> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: After installation freeBSD won't run Message-ID: <000a01c01799$b2531b80$f92aed18@anchorageak.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello: I have installed freeBSD 4.0 from CD (BSD power pack) 8 or 9 times so far. Each time the installation goes fine, but when the system boots for the first time, it gives me an error message: " Preparing machine to load FreeBSD/386 ..... Read error" and thats all I get. I have dedicated whole hard drive to freebsd. It seems its looking for something in drive "A". I am using bootmagic, since I have Win 98 in another hard drive. Hard drive size is about 4.2 Gigs and I have 196 megs of ram. Thanks for your help. Mehran [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#b8b8b8> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have installed freeBSD 4.0 from CD (BSD power pack) 8 or 9 times so far. Each time the installation goes fine, but when the system boots for the first time, it gives me an error message:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>" Preparing machine to load FreeBSD/386</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>.....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Read error"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> and thats all I get. I have dedicated whole hard drive to freebsd. It seems its looking for something in drive "A". I am using bootmagic, since I have Win 98 in another hard drive. Hard drive size is about 4.2 Gigs and I have 196 megs of ram. Thanks for your help. Mehran</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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