From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 17:28: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C12D37B526 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:27:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA92174; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:26:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA06161; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:25:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000712112242.C29642@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:25:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Anyone resolved "Missing operating system" issue? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Anders Chr. Skoe" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12-Jul-00 Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 July 2000 at 11:35:58 -0500, Anders Chr. Skoe wrote: >> Howdy, folks! >> >> unfortunately, this email follows a pretty good history of posts regarding >> the "Missing operating system" error. we install 3.2 with no problems on >> our western digital WDE4360-1807A3, but it just won't boot. our bios is >> the adaptec AHA 2940 Ultra/Ultra W BIOS v1.23. >> >> a) if we only create a freebsd partition, and try to boot it, we get the >> infamous "Missing operating system" error. >> >> b) if we create both dos & freebsd partitions, we get to the boot manager, >> but selecting freebsd doesn't work. we've tried putting the freebsd >> partition first as well as the dos partition first, but it makes no >> difference. we've also tried various combinations of partition sizes. >> >> c) setting the drive geometry to 4095/64/32 doesn't help (someone >> suggested this in an earlier mail). >> >> d) using FDISK we've set the active partition to the freebsd >> partition. it doesn't help. >> >> e) we can boot from the floppy & cdrom drives. >> >> we would really appreciate some useful feedback 'cause it's drivin' us >> crazy. > > This sounds like a geometry issue. Have you selected LBA in the BIOS > setup? If so, have you tried both "dangerously dedicated" and > Microsoft compatible partitions? Eek! Don't use dangerously dedicated on SCSI. It causes SCSI disks to break horribly. > Greg -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message