From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 31 08:36:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA17204 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:36:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA17123 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:35:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01388; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 09:35:38 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36B4865A.DDBBE975@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 09:35:38 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Owens CC: Greg Schohn , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, kingsled@enc.edu, Robert Nordier Subject: Re: disk problem at bootup... (me too!) References: <36B45C54.82BF98BE@enc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charles Owens wrote: > > When attempting the first boot I get a "missing operating system" > error. I can get into the system by booting from the install floppy and > typing "0:da(0,a)/boot/loader" at the first boot prompt. > > So I'm thinking that my messing around with dangerously dedicated mode > must have screwed something up. Thus far I've done this to attempt to > fix it: > > -- Booted the install disk. When to fdisk screen and did the normal > thing I'd do during and install: Use all disk (_not_ dangerously > dedicated), Set FBSD partition bootable. Then I hit 'W' to write it > out. Didn't help. You've lost your "boot block", aka the master boot record. On most FreeBSD systems, this is BootEasy, the one that is installed by default. You need to go far enough through the install to get to the point where it asks you if you want to install the boot manager. Answer yes, go on to the next screen, then reboot. Alternatively, you can boot from a DOS floppy or Win95 "start disk" and run the booteasy install program from the FreeBSD CD-ROM. Or just use BeBoot, like I do. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message