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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Free bsd wont boot
Date: 21 Oct 1995 21:49:24 +0100
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Richard Jacoby <rick@TotSysSoft> wrote:
>I have a P90 with on board IDE. I installed BSD. Everything worked fine  
>except when I booted up off the hard drive.  It gives a read error and  
>never even starts to boot up. if I take the drive to another machine it  
>works no problem. 

Looks like a "geometry" problem.  Both machines work with different
disk geometry translations.
-- 
cheers, J"org

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