From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 2:38:22 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 37AF51523B for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:37:39 -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 LAA05237 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:37:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:37:54 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Dekkers X-Sender: psd@chippie.cgu Reply-To: Paul Dekkers To: FreeBSD Mailinglist Subject: Re: Missing operating system with 40MB disk... In-Reply-To: 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 solved this problem. I reset my BIOS settings, and changed the disk geometry in the disklabel editor. Strange it wasn't right in the first place... Paul On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Paul Dekkers wrote: | 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 | 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