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From: shaman@mv.mv.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Subject: still not finding boot record
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Sender: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 16:48:48 GMT
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Hi. A few days ago there was a thread about lots of people having
the following problem. No solution was posted (else I missed it).
Having installed 2.0.5R (good installation program) there is one
fault. I cannot boot directly off the hard disk "sd0a". I used the
"standard" entry in the install (since I only have FB on the box)
I also tried "disklabel -B -w sd0". Didn't helped.
The install program won't let me make changes unless I am
actually downloading and installing parts of the distribution
(the only problem I have with the install :-). Then again,
if it didn't work the first time, I don't know why it'd work
the second time.
So for now I am stuck booting off of the isntallation floppy, and
typing "sd(0,a)/kernel" at the "Boot: " prompt (at which point
everything works fine).
There has to be some way to fix/add the boot record.
Anyone, help?
-coranth
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