From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 02:58:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D45FE16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:58:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from qmail-01.nntx.net (goofy.nntx.net [64.115.47.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1812D43D45 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:58:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@jeremykister.com) Received: (qmail 8305 invoked by uid 1010); 22 Jun 2004 22:57:28 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO jeremy01) (foo@jeremykister.com@68.80.68.156) by qmail-01.nntx.net with SMTP; 22 Jun 2004 22:57:28 -0400 Message-ID: <000501c458cd$d1f8cce0$0201090a@jeremy01> From: "Jeremy Kister" To: Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:57:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Subject: FreeBSD install on SCSI: Missing Operating System X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:58:11 -0000 I'm installing FreeBSD on an Intel ISP2150 dual 450 server with a Seagate ST39173LC 9GB SCA SCSI disk on an Adaptec AIC-7896 controller. I have no cd-rom, have created the two necessary floppies, and can install via FTP. the whole installation process goes smooth, but upon reboot, I simply get 'Missing Operating System'. I've googled for this, and searched the archives, but there is too much garbage about other operating systems interfering. I have found references to the auto-detected logical geometry being wrong. I see no user configurable options about c/h/s in the adaptec bios. FreeBSD's fdisk detects the geometry as: 8683 Cylinders/64 heads/32 sectors for 17782784 sectors (8683MB) I've tried making the root slice 250MB, 150MB, 100MB, and 90MB, each yielding no meaningful difference. Reading Charles Swiger's freebsd-questions post of 20040122, I have installed Windows 2000 Server on this machine; it boots up and runs fine. I'm simply stumped here and don't know what direction to head in. any advice? Jeremy Kister http://jeremy.kister.net/