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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [newbie help] Difficulty starting up... Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:59:14 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3156D0E2.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <david-2403962119340001@stubby.lightside.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: David Kurtz <david@lightside.net> David Kurtz wrote: > Upon completion of the download, installation seemed to go alright. We > removed the floppy, reboot, and all we are looking at is a prompt saying: > > Default: F? > > and, no bootage. Read through the installation docs on the boot floppy - they discuss this exact problem. You have a geometry mis-match problem. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project