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Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 22:13:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: Boot Manager -> disk
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On Fri, 16 May 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> 
> OK.  I've tried just about everything I can think of to make this
> silly machine bootable.  I selected boot easy in the install option,
> but it somehow got trashed later.  All I get when I boot is Operating
> Sytem Missing.  If I get my boot blocks off the floppy, I can then
> boot from there.
> 
> Warner
> 

  Did you try the old trick of using DOS fdisk to remove all partitions,
then create big-as-possible DOS partition, then try to install FreeBSD?
This will often sort of geometry problems, and has worked every time I had
a "Missing Operation System" problem.

Tom