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From: griffith@cs.curtin.edu.au (Don Griffiths)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: [FreeBSD] Problem booting from HD
Date: 10 Jun 94 07:14:52 GMT
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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G'Day,

I've just installed FreeBSD 1.1 GENERICAH#0 on a 386DX33 pc with
a Plus Impluse 120AT IDE hard drive. It boots fine from floppy 
but I cannot get it to boot from the HD after copying the kernel
to it.  I can direct the floppy to load the kernel from the HD 
but each time I try to boot it from the HD direct, I get the 
message "Missing Operating System".  The PC has previously had
MS-DOS 6.2 on the HD.  Any Ideas?
Don Griffiths.
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