From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 11:51:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA19658 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 11:51:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.hsc.wvu.edu (www.hsc.wvu.edu [157.182.105.122]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA19636 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 11:51:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jsigmon@localhost) by www.hsc.wvu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA20832; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:51:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:51:06 -0500 (EST) From: Jeremy Sigmon To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Missing Operating System In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > I just installed SNAP2.2-1014 on my backup server. It has > > three IDE disks and a cdrom all are detected and such, but after > > the install when I try and boot up I get : > > Missing Operating System... > > Boot with a DOS floppy and run FDISK and set the active partition to a > partition on your first disk. First thing I did. It was set active. This also happened on a 2.0 gig SCSI drive I had, but I reinstalled after making a 100meg dos partitiion in front. Boots now. AH2940 controller. Seagate drive. BTW I would love to know what the problem was, but I nuked the whole thing accidentally by mounting sd0 on my fixit floppy and trying to get the drive to boot from various suggestions I found in the archives. BOOM. lockup followed by the fixit floppy telling me that the drive was not a BSD drive so I could no longer mount it. OH well... 1014 is running as we speak. Thanks for the suggestion. Jeremy