From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 18: 6:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (dhcp.looksmart.com.au [202.53.47.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66FC537B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:06:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3B168m09111; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:06:09 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Message-Id: <200104110106.f3B168m09111@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Mark Sergeant" To: "Michael J. Turner" , "Pete Stapley" , Subject: Re: Missing Operating System X-Mailer: Pronto v2.2.3 On freebsd/mysql Date: 10 Apr 2001 20:06:05 EST Reply-To: "Mark Sergeant" In-Reply-To: <007d01c0c221$f55e9660$0204a8c0@dfgh> References: <002601c0c221$15078ea0$0201a8c0@ihatejim.net> <007d01c0c221$f55e9660$0204a8c0@dfgh> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Could also be that no partition is set active. Use fdisk to set a partition active if it isn't already. Cheers, Mark On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 19:54:25 -0500, Michael J. Turner said: > I have had that happen before, but I came to find out my drive was dying. > It could be the boot record. Im not totally for sure though > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Pete Stapley > To: questions@freebsd.org > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 7:48 PM > Subject: Missing Operating System > > > I just installed 4.2 from FTP and when I reboot I get and error, "missing operating system". Any suggestions? > -- The distinction between Jewish and goyish can be quite subtle, as the following quote from Lenny Bruce illustrates: "I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish. The B'nai Brith is goyish. The Hadassah is Jewish. Marine Corps -- heavy goyish, dangerous. "Kool-Aid is goyish. All Drake's Cakes are goyish. Pumpernickel is Jewish and, as you know, white bread is very goyish. Instant potatoes -- goyish. Black cherry soda's very Jewish. Macaroons are ____very Jewish. Fruit salad is Jewish. Lime Jell-O is goyish. Lime soda is ____very goyish. Trailer parks are so goyish that Jews won't go near them ..." -- Arthur Naiman, "Every Goy's Guide to Yiddish" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message