From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 18:35:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uce55.uchaswv.edu (uce55.uchaswv.edu [12.4.161.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F65D37B408 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:35:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cheech.uchaswv.edu ([172.16.32.40]) by uce55.uchaswv.edu (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA26868; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:35:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:42:23 -0400 From: Nathan Mace To: "jason" , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Missing Operating System Message-Id: <20010916214223.57b1081a.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> In-Reply-To: <000d01c13f18$213b8b80$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> References: <000d01c13f18$213b8b80$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG it sounds to me like it isn't installing a bootloader. did you tell it to install on the MBR? maybe it's in the post-install configs? of course there's not way to tell without that long d/l AGAIN. do you have access to a CD-writer? instead of d/ling it 50 billion times why not get an iso image? that way it won't take so long if you ever have to re-install nathan On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:29:00 -0400 "jason" wrote: > 4 times in a row now I have had the same trouble. I have a old Pentium 100 > box with 500MB SCSI drive which is not upgradeable because due to BIOS > issues. > > I had a minimal BSD install and Sendmail running before but somehow screwed > up Sendmail to the point it would not run anymore. I was trying to find a > way to make sendmail relay for certain individuals who have accounts without > having using their own email programs. > > Because things were so bad I decided to start over from scratch but am > unable to boot the OS. Here is what I am doing: > 1-Booted on Floppy created with latest flp files on the freebsd ftp site. > 2-Selected auto for the partitioning and file system creation. > 3-Selected minimal for install type. > 4-Selected ftp.freebsd.org as install media source. > 5-Selected Commit. > > It takes hours to download and install over my 144k IDSL line and when > completed it asks if I want to view any post install options. I say no and > exit the installer. > It reboots and after the memory check it states "Missing Operating System" > and freezes. > > I have done this 3 times now and have had the same result. The version it > is trying to install is 4.3-Release (at least that's what it tells me. > > any ideas? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message