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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP - unable to boot after install
Date: 27 May 1996 18:24:42 GMT
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Hook Hua <hookh@ucla.edu> wrote:

> After following all of the instructions for installation from the Walnut 
> Creek FreeBSD 2.1 CD-ROM, my system won't boot up from the HDD. At the 
> boot prompt
> 
> Boot:
> |
> 
> my system would freeze! Everytime.

What disk?  What controller?

-- 
cheers, J"org

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