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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Please Help Me (with boot.flp)!?
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:46:31 -0700
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To: Rowan Maclachlan <rowanmac@shell01.ozemail.com.au>

Rowan Maclachlan wrote:
> 
> I got all the stuff i need (boot, root and stuff like that) and i put
> them on disks using rawrite.exe, and when i boot from the disk, it locks?
> I have a 586-100 IBM processor and 8meg RAM, Award Bios, 256K Cache,
> 1.44meg 3.5 floppy drive (of course) and a 1.2gig hard disk. I have
> allready created a partion for it with fips.exe, and i don't have a clue
> whats wrong. Could someone please, please, please send me some help mail???
>         Thanks in advance,
>                 Rowanmac

A couple more bits of information, please:

	At what point does it lock up? What's on the screen and how long did 
it take to get there?

	What version of FreeBSD are you trying to install? (2.1R, -stable, 
-current, or some other)?


One thing you might try: disable the cache and see what happens. You may have 
to adjust the cache timing to run FreeBSD.

I hope this helps!

Ken