Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:48:03 +1100 From: "Richard Green" <rgreen@rainbow.net.au> To: "Eric Hodel" <hodeleri@seattleu.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NEWBIE: Boot problems Message-ID: <047b01be16c6$5e94d360$0500a8c0@pc005>
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>I'm forwarding this to questions because they'll best be able to help, Thanks, I've solved the first part of this (user error!): > but you >may need to specify 0:da(0,a)kernel instead of 0:sd(0,a)kernel. I got the system to start by booting from floppy, then at the boot: prompt was able to continue booting from the hard disk using 0:sd(0,a)kernel (I'd previously misspelled kenel... doh!) > Of course I >very very very highly doubt that this is the case, as the BIOS is unable to find >the boot code. Is the partition with FreeBSD set active? Usually, when you get >a "missing OS" error the bios is trying to find a bootable portion of the HDD, >and can't. > Yes it is active. fdisk returns, in part... ... sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 519202 (2047 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg:Cly 0/ sector 63/ head254 ... I'm wondering if something to do with my h/w setup may have cause the mbr to be miswritten, in which case how does one write the boot record again? Thanks & regards Richard Green -snip- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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