From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 17 12:44:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01131 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01114 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:44:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA02613; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:44:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:44:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: MrPtatoHed@aol.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stupid question In-Reply-To: <50714573.35d674e5@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This isn't exactly FreeBSD related, but it's easy. On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 MrPtatoHed@aol.com wrote: > if this a place to get help then please help! what do i do when a computer > says "missing operatiing system" when it starts up?? i reinstalled msdos 6.2 > and it doesnt work. any suggestions greatly appreciated It means the BIOS couldn't find an operating system installed on your hard drive to boot, or the selected partition didn't exist. To fix, boot a DOS boot floppy with fdisk on it (the first DOS install floppy does, I think) and run fdisk /mbr to reset the MBR, then fdisk again and select the desired partition. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message