Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:57:48 -0800 From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re: how to get OS-BS to see FreeBSD 950210-SNAP w/o clobbering DOS & Linux? Message-ID: <199502231957.LAA05273@idiom.com>
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* > * > Got a slight problem: OS-BS claims that there is "No operating system" * > when I try to boot FreeBSD. I can boot fine by using the boot floppy * > and telling it to boot off sd(0,a)/kernel. * * Need pfdisk output for the drive from a boot from a DOS floppy and a * boot from the DOS partition of the HD. * * If the floppy one shows a single partition of drive type 0x54, then * you need to add 63 cylinders to the apparent location of the slice. * * It's important to know for an absolute certainty if it's the DOS MBR, * OS-BS, or the BSD BIOS boot that is claiming no operating system. pfdisk shows the same thing when you boot from a floppy or the hard drive. What it shows agrees with fdisk when run from the floppy, hard drive, linux, or freebsd. Thanks, -Dave
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