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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5-Alpha wont boot from HD
Date: 6 Jun 1995 03:24:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Message-ID: <3r0hq3$3qn@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3qvsdj$afj@prime.mdata.fi>
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <3qvsdj$afj@prime.mdata.fi>,
Jarkko Torppa <torppa@mits.mdata.fi> wrote:
>I'm unable to get the HD to boot:
>  - standard boot: missing opsys.
>  - bootmanager: Default: F? or F1 (BSD) after hittin 'F1' turns to F?
>  - bootfloppy: can boot just fine by entering 'hd(0.a)/kernel'
>  - System workd fine under latest 2.0-snap

Geometry mismatch.  Please verify geometry in Partition editor!
See also the help text in the disk selection menu, right before
that.  It talks about this.

					Jordan