From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 19 6:58:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lion.plab.ku.dk (lion.plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DAE14E38 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 06:58:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tobez@lion.plab.ku.dk) Received: (from tobez@localhost) by lion.plab.ku.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA55297; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:57:35 +0100 (CET) To: Stavros Patiniotis Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installing 3.1 #2 References: From: Anton Berezin Date: 19 Mar 1999 15:57:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: Stavros Patiniotis's message of Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:46:02 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <86oglpjzmp.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk> Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 - on FreeBSD 4.0-current Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stavros Patiniotis writes: > I can't actually get to LINT, since my computer won't boot :( > > Any other suggestions? Is the partition on which FreeBSD resides marked as ``active'' in MBR? ``Missing operating system'' may indicate that ``active'' flag is set to an empty/unused partition or is not set at all. You can try booting from the installation diskettes, go to the Fixit option, choose Floppy option, switch to the Fixit shell prompt (Alt-F4) and type fdisk da0 (or whatever is the disk you installed FreeBSD on) to see the layout of partitions. Flag 80 (active) is what you are looking for. If I guessed your problem correctly, you can fix it by using fdisk -a da0 and answering correctly to the questions the program will ask. Hope this helps, -- Anton Berezin The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message