Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 09:52:07 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: lmcerpr@lmc.ericsson.se (Eric Primeau) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, lmcerpr@lmc.ericsson.se, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing operating system Message-ID: <199510250852.JAA07222@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <9510231608.AA00904@egg.lmc.ericsson.se> from "Eric Primeau" at Oct 23, 95 12:08:19 pm
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> I perform a "Minimal" installation from Media="DOS partition" and it seems to succeed > with no error messages. NOTE: I choose the "Boot Manager" option. > > When all is finished and I reboot, the boot manager prompts me for: > F1 DOS F5 disk 2 > > If I choose F1, DOS boots OK. > If I choose F5, I get "Missing operating system" and the system hangs. This is something I experienced, and probably should go in the FAQ. Certain BIOSes (my Intel Zappa 100 is one of those) do an automatical remapping of the drive geometry if they find >1023 cyls, while the boot manager apparently uses the standard geometry. I think this way only the partition at the beginning of the disk can boot. You should disable this feature in the BIOS. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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