From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 15:55:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20158 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:55:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA20146 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:55:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA04899; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:54:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:54:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Rob Judd cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk geometry for a Maxtor LXT-340S disk In-Reply-To: <32F242CB.50EB@lmco.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Rob Judd wrote: > Hello, I was hoping that someone might have already gone through > installing FreeBSD on a Maxtor LXT-340S disk drive, and, would be > willing to provide the disk geometry that was used. > > To date, I have attempted the installation several times, and, so far, > each time, I get the 'Missing operating system' message after selecting > the FreeBSD O/S. Geometry is not your problem. Boot using a DOS disk, run FDISK and select a partition on your first disk and make it active. If this is the second disk in the system, then install BootEasy on the first disk (run bootinst.exe from /tools) or use the boot floppy with a command like wd(1,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major