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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