From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 13:22:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chippie.cgu.nl (chippie.cgu.nl [145.101.220.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76575154E5 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:22:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from psd@cgu.nl) Received: from localhost (psd@localhost) by chippie.cgu.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3/psd) with SMTP id WAA03112 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:22:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:22:48 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Dekkers X-Sender: psd@chippie.cgu Reply-To: Paul Dekkers To: FreeBSD Mailinglist Subject: Missing operating system with 40MB disk... 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 Hi I have an 40MB harddisk (Seagate ST157A) as primary IDE master for my root. I have exactly the problem as in the FAQ, but I can't say the disk I'm using is a large disk. When booting the system it complains "Missing operatingsystem" when using a standard MBR, and when using "BootEasy" I get the "F?" prompt after "F1 FreeBSD" (which I can't use...) When using an bootdisk I can simply use wd(0,a)kernel on the boot: prompt to boot the system - it then works normally. What disk geometry concerned everything seems normal: when using ide_conf.exe it repotrs the same geometry for all modes (bios, controller, ocontroller after reset). Geometry is CHS=560/6/26, set up with the BIOS IDE auto-detection and USER-option. What can be wrong? I tried almost everything (also different boot-managers) - I think it can't be hardware, and everything should work... (I remember I once ran Linux on that disk, and LILO booted without any problem...) I hope there is a solution for the problem... I'd really like to have this disk the boot-disk... Thank you in advance, Paul -- Paul Dekkers E-Mail: To err is human, to moo bovine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message