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From: gryphon@msgi.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: Can not boot 2.0.5R
Date: 13 Jun 1995 17:52:28 -0400
Organization: MSG, Inc. (Burlington, MA)
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Sender: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@msgi.com>
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In article <3rk25d$4n8@sven.mn.interact.net>,
Greg Rowe <greg@mn.interact.net> wrote:
>That's what I thought, but yesterday I installed on a new system 
>After the install completed, I get the "No Operating System"
>message again. The trusty "fixit" disk came to the rescue again. 
>[snip]
>Are we doing something wrong or is the IDE MBR code not
>getting written correctly ? Thanks.

The problem is not just with IDE drives. I have the same problem
with my SCSI drive. The common thread that I have seen with
this problem (among those who posted) is that we chose the
"Standard MBR" record from the install program. Anyone have
this who chose something else?

>I had a couple mails from other folks having the exact same problem
>wanting to know where to find the old Snap boot disks
>(anyone still have them on an archive?).

Add me to the list of those asking. :-)

-coranth

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