From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 18:31: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta-1.gci.net (mta-1.gci.net [208.138.130.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD8537B423 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mmp-2.gci.net ([208.138.130.81]) by mta-1.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G0FYVV02.AJB for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:31:07 -0800 Received: from jt9d ([24.237.42.249]) by mmp-2.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id G0FYVW00.K31 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:31:08 -0800 Message-ID: <000a01c01799$b2531b80$f92aed18@anchorageak.net> From: "Mehran" To: Subject: After installation freeBSD won't run Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:30:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01C0175F.05B12000" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C0175F.05B12000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C0175F.05B12000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello:

I have installed freeBSD 4.0 from CD = (BSD power=20 pack) 8 or 9 times so far. Each time the installation goes fine, = but when=20 the system boots for the first time, it gives me an error = message:

" Preparing machine to load=20 FreeBSD/386

.....

Read error"

and thats all I get. I have = dedicated =20 whole hard drive to freebsd. It seems its looking for something in = drive=20 "A". I am using bootmagic, since I have Win 98 in another hard drive. = Hard drive=20 size is about 4.2 Gigs and I have 196 megs of ram. Thanks for your help. = Mehran

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