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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!usenet From: Zhihui Huey HU <huey> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help with BSD Date: 16 Jul 1996 16:46:50 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4sgh1q$hi3@masala.cc.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: caesar.dt.uh.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1IS (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de X-URL: news:4seh7t$hn4@uriah.heep.sax.de Hello, You seem to know what you are doing so do you mind if I ask some questions? Actually, I've got a problem. My installation of FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE does not seem to want to boot. I looked and looked but can only find a FAQ that states my disk geometry is wrong. I checked but BSD seems to find the correct CHS that coorespond to my BIOS. Some hardware background would be: 486DX250 Intel HD C: 850MB Conner partition 1 508MB Dos partition 2 not used HD D: 235MB Maxtor partition 1 139MB DOS partition 2 74MB mounted as / for FreeBSD I'm installing the minimum installation, the /bin distribution from ftp.freebsd.org on partition 2 of HD D:. I plan to create one freebsd partition on HD C: and mount it as /usr and another as /var. Does this sound good? My problem is that upon booting the Boot Manager, the F? prompt appears again everytime I press the corresponding F-key for FreeBSD. Can you help me? Anyone out there can help me? My e-mail address is hu_z@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu or ce_zhh@hal.lamar.edu Thanks. Z. Huey Hu