Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:38:50 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: ma khin sandy soe <soe@pacific.net.sg> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Message-ID: <20010401183850.A18843@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.20010401100445.00667ba8@pacific.net.sg>; from soe@pacific.net.sg on Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:04:45PM %2B0900 References: <1.5.4.32.20010401100445.00667ba8@pacific.net.sg>
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On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:04:45PM +0900, ma khin sandy soe wrote: > I have installed freeBSD ( June 1999 Version 3.2 Official > released by GB Breenbay CD rom) on my laptop with Windows Millennium. > I used Partition Commander edition 1.03 for partitioning the hard disk. > I got the successful installation message at the end. Anyhow I am not > able to boot it and the following message is given. > > "The selected operating system appears to have a defective boot > record. The normal boot signature is missing. Some operating > systems boot through a Dos partition, like NT. If this is the > case,select OK to return to the OS selectionmenu. Use Alt-S > (setup) and select Order, Add and Removed menu to remove the > non-bootable selection fron the menu." First, a late word of advice: never use a disk utility for one operating system on the section of disk used for another operating system. I have had bad experiences with Partition Magic on ext2 filesystems. Although they may say such filesystems are supported, don't trust them. What you should have done is use Windows Millenium to create a primary partition for Windows, then used the FreeBSD fdisk to create a slice for FreeBSD. Next, use disklabel to partition the slice. In fact, the FreeBSD installer will do this for you. In addition, it seems you are booting a strange boot loader. That doesn't look like a BIOS message, and it sure isn't a message generated by any stage of the FreeBSD boot loader. You should use the FreeBSD boot loader to do things, or maybe GNU Grub (I've never actually used that). By the way, FreeBSD 3.2 is very old. I recommend getting 4.2 if this is a new installation. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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