From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 00:02:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA15232 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:02:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15224 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:02:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA23863; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:02:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:02:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Brett Hamlin cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Question In-Reply-To: <01bd5806$f4844880$81805ed1@bretth.social-connect.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Brett Hamlin wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD. I select the standard MBR on the > install screen. After it's done installing and I reboot, I get a no > operating system found error. It's like its not copying the MBR to the > bootsector. If I reinstall it and select the multi-OS boot manager, it > will load that boot manager but, when I press F1, (load FreeBSD), it > will just return me to the f prompt, like it can find the FreeBSD > kernel. However, if i put in my boot floppy and tell it to specifically > load from 0:sd(0,a)kernel, then it will load. I guess, I'm wondering if > I'm missing a step here for it to automatically load without having to > put the floppy in everytime. What is your disk layout? Do you have both IDE and SCSI disks? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message