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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with BSD
Date: 18 Jul 1996 15:59:17 +0100
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Zhihui Huey HU (huey) wrote:
: Hello,

[......]
: 	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
[......]
: 	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?

What's the F-key?  Are you typing F5 (to get to the second disk), then F2?

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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