From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 19:09:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA22860 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA22853 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:08:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA06180; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:08:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Robert Watson cc: ellison4 , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Here, Robert, I'll bail you out...:-) On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Robert Watson wrote: > I was speaking to Dave about my FreeBSD installation problems and he > suggested that I e-mail you. I would greatly appreciate any input which > you would have. I have a multiple boot computer with two hard disks, a > 1.2 gig and a 127 meg drive. My first disk has system commander > installed which manages the many operating systems. On it is Windows NT > Server, Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups. I have didicated the second > disk to a minimal install of FreeBSD. Every time I try to install it, I > reboot into it and get the error statement " No bootable partition". This is a known bug in sysinstall. Sometimes the active partition bit gets reset by sysinstall for odd reasons. Use DOS FDISK and reset the active partition to a partition and it should all work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major