Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:06:02 +0200 From: Axel Steiner <ast@treibsand.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JVC MP-XP7210 Missing Operating System Message-ID: <20050630150602.GH19617@chronix.treibsand.com> In-Reply-To: <20050630144226.E47385D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20050630085912.GE19617@chronix.treibsand.com> <20050630144226.E47385D07@ptavv.es.net>
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Hi, > No CD? Ouch. That does make things a bit difficult. yes, it's a Subnotebook. There's no space for a cd ;) > Which sysinstall options did you use? Any of them should have asked you > about installing an MBR. If you have only FreeBSD on the disk, I'd > suggest just using the standard MBR and not the FreeBSD MBR. I used the standard MBR. > You can also install a standard MBR with a DOS disk or get a FIXIT > floppy and use that to get a slim version of FreeBSD up so that you can > try to track down the problem. It will include boot0cfg. Or just use the > floppies to bring up sysinstall and select "Configure". Than you can > select "Fdisk" to verify the slices. Make sure that the FreeBSD slice is > flagged as bootable. If not, you have the option of setting it. When you > select the "Write changes" option, it will put up a warning about > sysinstall normally not wanting you to do a write, but you will not be > re-installing the OS, so you can write it. I also tried the osbs135.exe to create a new MBR/Bootloader. But then I also couldn't boot and got "read error". The slice was marked as bootable. > When you exist Fdisk, you will get a request to define the MBR. If you > will have multiple OSes on the system, you probably want "BootMgr". If > FreeBSD is the only OS, select "Standard". > > Then select "Label" to look at the partition table. This will only list > named and sizes, but it is something to check on. > > Unless you modify the slices or partitions, these operations will not > cause the loss of any of the OS files on the disk. Neither will setting > the slice to bootable. What me really confused is that FreeBSD 4.11 works perfectly, but 5.4 won't boot after installing. Now I solved the problem by upgrading 4.11 -> 5.4 Had sysinstall heavily changed since 4.11? Bye, Axel
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