From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 10:25: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marsh.owlnet.rice.edu (marsh-49.owlnet.rice.edu [128.42.49.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A504B37BE5D for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skoe@owlnet.rice.edu) Received: from jungle.owlnet.rice.edu (jungle.owlnet.rice.edu [128.42.49.103]) by marsh.owlnet.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA26981; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:24:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (skoe@localhost) by jungle.owlnet.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA02453; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:24:33 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: jungle.owlnet.rice.edu: skoe owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:24:33 -0500 (CDT) From: "Anders Chr. Skoe" To: george@vagner.com Cc: so@server.i-clue.de, doug@safeport.com, grog@lemis.com, squirrel@hammis.com, kaygee@netset.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone resolved "Missing operating system" issue? In-Reply-To: <20000712133053.45174.qmail@hotmail.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 Here's what we've now tried: 1) single fbsd partition. set bootable at initial install (s), and at post-install (s,w). also tried "fdisk /mbr" from dos. tried "dangerously dedicted" as well as "microsoft compatible". still get "Missing operating system" message. 2) one fat (dos) partition, one fbsd partition. set fbsd bootable at initial install (s), as well as at post-install(s,w). also tried "fdisk /mbr" from dos. boot manager will neither boot "f1" (dos partition) nor "f2" (fbsd). ie, no success. other comments: -we have one hdrive -what exactly do you mean by "standard boot blocks"? how can i get back to the 'standard' geometry once i've set it? i checked the wdigital site for our drive, but it didn't specify a standard setting for cyls/heads/sectors. -(greg): what do you mean by "selected LBA in the BIOS"? what i have also noticed is that the "A" flag does not seem to stay set on the partition that i want to boot. like i mentioned above, i've tried to set it using fdisk both during the initial install and during post-config (s or s+w), but this flag is never set when i enter fdisk later on. i checked our other fbsd-machines, and none of them had the "A" flag set on the (working) bootable partition either. could this nevertheless be the problem - and if so, how do i fix it? thanks for all feedback so far. out, a. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message