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From: andersen@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Craig G. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Boot trouble
Date: 16 Dec 1995 15:14:24 GMT
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	The hardware is a 486 Dell Tower/EIDE/8Mb/DX2 50Mhz.
	It boots the Linux floppies and the NetBSD floppies
	but when booting FreeBSD, the light only flickers a
	couple of times and then vanishes forever with no messages.

	I have tried the "dd" from Linux and rawrite from DOS.
	The flopies have been pulled from ftp.freebsd.org
	for both 2.0.5 and 2.1.

	Any ideas on what might be the problem ? or should I
	dig into the boot floppy code ?

	As always any help would be appreciated.

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