Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:11:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Wes Peters <wes@phbtsus.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help!!! Cannot get 2.2--961014-SNAP to boot! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961114211025.28188N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611132225.OAA21477@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Wes Peters wrote: > I've been trying for two days now to install this SNAPSHOT. I've tried > two different disk drives, WD 1.0 and 1.0 G IDE drives, on three > different systems (Gateway P5/90, Gateway 4DX2-66V, and generic > 486/33). In each case, I get the OS installed via the internet from > ftp.freebsd.org, but when I reboot the boot manager gives me the > F? prompt and cannot boot from the hard disk. In all these cases, it is because the geometry is misdetected on the target disk. Try reinstalling, this time put a small DOS partition on the disk, then delete it from the install program and put FreeBSD over it. 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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