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From: kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R: Minor misbehaviour when rebooting
Message-ID: <1994Dec3.024642.20519@fsl.noaa.gov>
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Organization: Forecast Systems Laboratory
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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 02:46:42 GMT
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In article <5b4fwmaHsQB@antido.ping.de>,
Andreas Timmermann <anti@antido.ping.de> wrote:
>  When i reboot my system, the bios complains that the setup is invalid.   
>Pressing ctrl-alt-delete boots my system ok.

I have the *exact* same problem.  Mine's a Micron P66 PCI.  If I go
into DOS after booting with FreeBSD, DOS says I have a 5.25 1.2MB
floppy.  If I reboot, DOS then says the right thing: 3.5 1.44MB.  The
solution is just another reboot after using FreeBSD.