From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 9:51:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4698537B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from glamredhel.hayholt.org (hayholt.org [195.18.102.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D3F43EB2 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:51:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@hayholt.org) Received: from eldar.hayholt.org (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by glamredhel.hayholt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C8FAF11; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:51:14 +0000 (WET) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:50:42 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger To: Bruno Campanelli Cc: freeBSD-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <023201c2b287$1fcaaae0$6fd9b550@computer> Message-ID: <20030102184847.A177@eldar.hayholt.org> References: <023201c2b287$1fcaaae0$6fd9b550@computer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm > having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 > MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball > disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive. The installation works just > fine, but when I try to reboot the system, I get the message "Missing > Operating System". > > sounds like the partition is not bootable start /stand/sysinstall goto configuration and start fdisk place the bar on the freebsd partition and press "s" after that press W and exit sysinstall. to get into it simply start the machine from the BSD cdrom Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message