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From: Ken Bass <kbass@radix.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ARGH! Cant install FreeBSD!
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 02:50:05 -0500
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On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Manu Iyengar wrote:

> In article <47jpep$kig@news1.radix.net> you write:
> This has nothing to do with FreeBSD, it's a PC architecture problem. I'll
> bet you have your IDE controller on the motherboard, in which case you

  That PC architecture issue may be true. But I should be able to boot
from a floppy and manually specify the drive to boot, shouldn't I?

  BTW, I disabled my IDE drives so that the SCSI was the only one and
it booted.

  ---Ken