From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 17 17:23:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23824 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:23:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.aye.net (orion.aye.net [206.185.8.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA23819 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:23:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rabtter@orion.aye.net) Received: (qmail 23411 invoked by uid 3759); 18 Jul 1998 00:24:20 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 20:24:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "B. Richardson" To: Thomas Dean cc: craigs@os.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD only bootstraps from floppy In-Reply-To: <199807172302.QAA01565@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It installs a DOS Master Boot Record (not to be confused with sector 0 of a bootable partition). Attributes associated the partition itself should be left intact and it should not change what your current active partition is. You get garbage in the MBR then the BIOS can't find sector 0 of your active partition. I've been able to boot a couple of flavors of Uni*x on intel with a DOS MBR. Frequently have had MBR problems with Un*x on compaqs, and have had similar symptoms with problems using extended BIOS translation on SCSI controllers. On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Thomas Dean wrote: > You have what looks like a standard partition table. > > The DOS fdisk may make this disk bootable. Does DOS fdisk /mbr make > the drive bootable? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message