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Date:      Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:01:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Joshua Shriver <zeppelin@Access.Mountain.Net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960722140022.318A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960722000544.8944B-100000@Access.Mountain.Net>

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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Joshua Shriver wrote:

> I believe I have correctly installed FreeBSD 2.1 Jan 1996.
> But when I reboot and get the F? prompt it hangs when I select BSD.
> 
> Can you give me any advice?

This usually means that FreeBSD didn't detect the disk's geometry right.
Delete the FreeBSD slice, put a small DOS slice on the disk, then delete
it in sysinstall when you allocate space for FreeBSD in the fdisk editor.

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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