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From: twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: 2.0 install: how to set my disk geometry?
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In article <D5IELw.973@midway.uchicago.edu>,
I said:

>I'm attempting to install the FreeBSD 2.0 release on a 486SX
>clone with two IDE hard drives.  The first drive is a
>Seagate 201MB, and the second a Maxtor 340MB.
>Unfortunately, the system won't boot from wd0, the Seagate
>drive.

I should add here that the system *will* boot from floppy,
if I give it an image name of "hd(0,a)/kernel".  I would
prefer to boot straight from the hard disk, of course, and
I'm still nervous about conflicting geometries.

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