Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:27:05 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: magner@blueridge-ef.saic.com (Tony Magner), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot problem Message-ID: <9601022027.AA11812@gnu.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 1995 23:00:12 PST." <199512210700.RAA15034@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> Tony Magner stands accused of saying: > > F1 . . . BSD > > > > Default: F? > > > > Q: Did I do something wrong during install? What does this msg mean and I how do I rid myself of it? > > > After i installed freebsd, I got booteasy 14 off a simtel cd and tried to install it (it worked before). Following the instruction, the same thing happened...I have a Packard Bell P100 with a 1.2 gigabyte disk...(first 500 Mbyte dos, next 300 meg extended, and then a freebsd slice). I also can boot if I select the active partition in fdisk... Also, fbsdboot has problems (it starts booting, prints a message and then halts [not sure what the message is...] I tried winbsdboot, and it could read the partition (it tells me what I can boot from...) I have no problem booting from a boot disk selecting wd(0,a)/kernel* -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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