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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 boot problem Date: 1 Dec 1996 08:36:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <57rg1r$9p6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <57q8fu$m9d@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E lliu@u.washington.edu (Le-Chin Eugene Liu) wrote: > OSBSBETA. OSBSBETA can jump to the second drive. But when I pressed > ENTER at the boot prompt, I heard that the HD was accessed for a very > short time then the boot prompt re-apeared again. The computer got > stuck there. The boot prompt kept coming out, but couldn't load the > kernel. Geometry problems. That's described in the FAQ. Btw., i bet you would have got it booted by using a boot floppy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)