From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 17:29:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE1837B794; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA25432; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:59:27 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:59:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Anders Chr. Skoe" Subject: Re: Anyone resolved "Missing operating system" issue? Message-ID: <20000714095926.C27141@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000712112242.C29642@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 13 July 2000 at 17:25:53 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > 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. I've never seen any problems using "dangerously dedicated" on SCSI. I've been doing it all the time for over 8 years. Care to explain your claim? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message