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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't install 2.1.5 over NFS
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 04:44:54 -0800
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Roger Buttiens wrote:

> The error message suggests an NFS problem, but when I do the commit a
> second time it goes through , it installs everything, but the thing
> won't boot after all.  It keeps on displaying (loop) :
> 
>           F1 . . .  BSD
>           Default : F1

Please read HARDWARE.TXT - this is covered in the troubleshooting
section.

I don't know what your NFS problem is, but it could be anything - I'd
verify all your mount permissions again.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project