From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 27 17:44:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00675 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:44:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00668 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:44:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id RAA16968; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:42:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA18960; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:42:54 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id SAA08438; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:42:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3636769C.ECE07B59@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:42:52 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joubert Uriarte CC: mm@i.cz, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting Problems References: <000e01be01fe$95499120$c908a8c0@xichrome.asiansources.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joubert Uriarte wrote: > > Martin, > > Thank you very much for your reply and for helping me. > > Yes, I couldn't agree with you more with these HP Vectra machines. I hate the HP > Vectra BIOS! Anyway, I tried what you suggested... it didn't work. Um... can I > clarify some items on your suggestion? > > If I partition my hard disk using FreeBSD and I don't use the dedicated mode, > keeping it compatible with other operating systems, does it create the FDISK > table you are referring to? Yes, it does. Don't use the 'dangerously dedicated mode', that's what's biting you. > Also, the operand 'size' in your dd command doesn't seem to be valid. I omitted > it since the default block size is 512 anyway. Do I perform the dd command > before or after I have installed FreeBSD? The option should be bs=nnn (for blocksize). > Yes, I do get Missing Operating System when I install FreeBSD without using the > dedicated mode partition, but when I zeroed out the first sector, the computer > didn't want to boot at all -- not even with the floppy boot disk. You'll need to reinstall the FreeBSD boot selector. You can do this by running sysinstall (the FreeBSD installation program) up to the point where it asks you which boot program you want use, selecting the standard one (booteasy), then quitting from the next screen. If you need to reinstall FreeBSD again, in order to build the FDISK table, this will be done during the installation. > * sigh * =8( > > Thanks... I hope you can help me further. Sorry for your troubles -- most FreeBSD installations aren't quite this bad. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message