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From: justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk (Justin Murdock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: booting FreeBSD for the first time...
Date: 29 May 1996 19:05:50 +0100
Organization: Visual and Information DEsign centre, Coventry Universtiy
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>>>>> "JW" == J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:

JW> "Thumper!" <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com> wrote:
>> I had no troubles with the FTP install (a nifty thing!), but now,
>> when I go to start the machine on its own, it boots up with this:
>> 
>> Default: F?
>> 
>> F! . . . BSD

JW> Read the instructions... you're suffering from a geometry mismatch
JW> (FreeBSD's installation geometry doesn't match the BIOS' one.)

JW> This is almost irreparable,

Hold the panic! I'm sure there was an implicit "short of getting it
right and reinstalling"

JW> unless you think you've got enough knowledge to tweak the numbers
JW> in the fdisk table manually.

JW> -- cheers, J"org

JW> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ --
JW> NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have
JW> sources for. ;-)

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