Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:36:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: allan torrey <atorrey@quicklink.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting fbsd Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960809133615.219E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960809170741.006b9eec@quicklink.com>
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On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, allan torrey wrote: > I've installed fbsd 2.1 on an scsi drive via adaptek 152x scsi controller; > system runs on cyrix p-166+ on tyan mb with 64 megs ram. But instead of > booting, I get: > DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK... > > What did I do wrong? Sysinstall hosed your active slice flag. Use a DOS boot floppy & run fdisk and reset the active slice ('partition' in DOS parlance). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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