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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail From: medrecjm@crl.com (John Mosser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Error: C:0 H:0 S:16 Date: 15 May 1996 12:24:01 -0700 Organization: the brink Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4ndb0h$jo2@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tried to install as dual boot on 540M dos drive - ran into geometry problems, so decided to allocate entire disk to freebsd. Used novice install - seemed like everything was going ok, but now when I try to boot with boot.flp disk, I get "Error: C:0 H:0 S:16". I figured I screwed up the master boot record, so tried to recover using pfdisk.exe from floppy drive, repartioning and also changing disk geometry to what cmos says it is - also tried to enter the disk geometry that the boot.flp disk originally defaulted to, which I guess was different 'cause of disk translation... I haven't loaded any unix/unix-like operating system before, so alot of this is new to me. I'll continue to read the faq, etc. (the intent was to load this from the 'Net, so I don't have any books on *BSD), but meanwhile, can anybody can offer suggestions? Also please tell me: Am I having fun yet? Thanks John