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From: lliu@u.washington.edu (Le-Chin Eugene Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.5 boot problem
Date: 30 Nov 1996 21:21:02 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
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Hi there,

   I help a friend install FreeBSD 2.1.5 on his new Pentium Pro 180.
The mother board is a Pentium Pro INTEL 440FX Mainboard with 64MB
memory. No SCSI. Two Seagate 2GB EIDE HDs. IDE CD-ROM drive. I use
a CD-ROM to install FreeBSD on the second drive and use the whole
drive.(Win95 on the first drive) I chose standard MBR, because I want
to use OSBSBETA to select the OS. Installation went well, including
OSBSBETA. OSBSBETA can jump to the second drive. But when I pressed
ENTER at the boot prompt, I heard that the HD was accessed for a very
short time then the boot prompt re-apeared again. The computer got
stuck there. The boot prompt kept coming out, but couldn't load the
kernel. There is hardly any error message. Maybe just something about
can't load kernel. We tried all the options and nothing worked.
Finally, my friend gave up and installed Linux. And no problem for
Linux.(still OSBSBETA) Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks.

Eugene Liu