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From: gblauvel@massive.Mines.EDU (Blauvelt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: boot problem redux
Date: 1 Dec 1995 19:59:47 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines 
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I'm stumped. I've read the faq and postings in this group,
made sure the drive geomotries in freebsd and the bios match,
moved the mount point to a partition which begins and ends
below cylinder 1024, etc. but still can't get it to boot from
the hard drive.

Gateway 66MHz pentium, 700 meg IDE hard drive with ~100 meg
DOS partition, atapi CD rom drive (but I haven't started to
work on that problem yet). Boots from floppy. But when I attempt
to boot from the hard drive it just keeps giving me the f1/f2
prompt and seems unable to locate any boot code. Yes, I've written
and rewritten the MBR. I'm certain that I'm doing (or not doing)
something pretty stupid (or simple) and I'd appreciate any
suggestions you might be able to make so that this system will
boot. tia,

Glenn