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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot ((((((HELP)))))) Date: 1 Dec 1996 17:39:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <57sfss$gcv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <57qj9q$cgs@forged.passport.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E lannyb@cybertouch.com wrote: > I have loaded FreeBSD on my third hard drive. When restarting my > computer, I get a prompt for F1 or F2. F2 is for BSD but if I choose > it, the program tries to load but ends up rebooting. > > Can you please tell me where I have gone wrong. You went wrong in not reading the FAQ. Section: 2.14. I can't get past the boot manager's `F?' prompt. and adjacent sections are for you. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)