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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Booting from second hard drive
Date: 22 Jul 1996 22:31:16 GMT
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royw@flash.net (Roy Wilkinson) wrote:

> I have an Acer Pentium-90 with 8 meg ram and two IDE hard drives.
> I installed 2.1.5 Release on the second (514 Meg) hard drive.  When
> I try to boot from the drive, I get a message like:
> 
>    ERROR:  C0  H0  S0

The bootstrap can't read any sector.  However, you probably have to
describe your disk setup a bit more detailed.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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