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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [newbie help]  Difficulty starting up...
Date: 26 Mar 1996 19:48:48 GMT
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david@lightside.net (David Kurtz) writes:

> 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?

Disk geometry mismatch between FreeBSD and BIOS.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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