Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:08:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Robert Watson <robert@fledge.watson.org> Cc: ellison4 <ellison4@erols.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961022190716.6076I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961022030214.13740A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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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
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