Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 09:57:28 -0400 From: "Justin P. Michel" <jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca> To: <jimmcloughlin@earthlink.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: first time install questons Message-ID: <00bf01c225be$3ee7fc80$0e0ea8c0@CONTINUUM> References: <NCBBJEJOIHMJAPHOEEFPOEALELAA.jimmcloughlin@earthlink.net>
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Jim, A similar problem happened to me the first time I installed FBSD. Basically, after the initial partition setup, there are three choices for MBR - boot mgr, standard, none. The text blurb tends to point people to none, however, for single drives completely dedicated to FBSD, standard is the way to go. Regards, Justin P. Michel |- J Continuum ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim McLoughlin" <jimmcloughlin@earthlink.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 5:22 AM Subject: first time install questons > Hi folks > > Have spent some time installing FBSD 4.6 via FTP. Everything seemed to go > well, I got through the entire installation. But once I rebooted, It found > the master boot record on my scsi drive ( the only hard drive in the box), > and halted with the message "missing operating system" > > I installed one freebsd partition on the entire drive (no other OS), made it > active for boot, and did not install a boot manager (default). I also used > the automatic filesystem setup, since it suited my needs fine. I > successfully resovled any device conflicts - the only ones were network > based, and my ed0 interface is working since the ftp install successfully > grabbed packages, sources, etc. > > My questions are: > > 1. What are the (probablt glaringly obvious) reasons I would get the missing > operating system message? My best guesses are some kind of device setup > issue. > 2. Anyway I can fix things without re-installing again (since I belive the > rest of the install was done fine, and it's a bit slow under ftp)? I assume > I can use the 2 floopies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp) to restart the sysintall > program and re-configure. > > Any other tips greatly appreciated... > > JM > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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