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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Setup to boot Date: 10 Jan 1995 00:37:30 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3esksa$okg@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3erk2e$7ob@earth.usa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3erk2e$7ob@earth.usa.net>, <cle@usa.net> wrote: > >I have a DEC Celebris 590 PC which I just loaded FREEBSD 2.0 on. The problem >that I am having is writing the boot block to the disk. The drive is an E-IDE >disk. The system is installed and working but when I try to boot off of the >hard drive, I get a READ ERROR. If I boot the hard drive from the floppy, >it works. I've seen this myself, on two almost-identical laptops. One one machine it works fine, and on the other I have this problem. It's a mystery, and I'll be looking into it soon! Jordan