Boot problem

From: Kent Oxley (oxleyk_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/12/03

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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:15:34 -0600

    Hello all,

    Over the past two months I have been tinkering with various flavors of Linux
    and last week I decided to try FreeBSD. [Yes, I know it isn't Linux]

    I installed FreeBSD last night for the second time on a Dell Dimension but
    when I restarted, the computer goes into a continual boot-loop and won't go
    past the "F1 Default" message before it restarts. This problem occurred the
    first time I installed it also.

    While I have years of MS-DOS, Mac, and Windows experience, I'm new to
    Unix/Linux and don't know where to start troubleshooting this issue.

    Thanks for your help.

    Kent

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