From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 7 2:24:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E22637B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 02:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2700E43E4A for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 02:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimmcloughlin@earthlink.net) Received: from user-112vu8m.biz.mindspring.com ([66.47.249.22] helo=gateway) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17R8HE-0000rD-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2002 05:24:20 -0400 Reply-To: From: "Jim McLoughlin" To: Subject: first time install questons Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 02:22:39 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks Have spent some time installing FBSD 4.6 via FTP. Everything seemed to go well, I got through the entire installation. But once I rebooted, It found the master boot record on my scsi drive ( the only hard drive in the box), and halted with the message "missing operating system" I installed one freebsd partition on the entire drive (no other OS), made it active for boot, and did not install a boot manager (default). I also used the automatic filesystem setup, since it suited my needs fine. I successfully resovled any device conflicts - the only ones were network based, and my ed0 interface is working since the ftp install successfully grabbed packages, sources, etc. My questions are: 1. What are the (probablt glaringly obvious) reasons I would get the missing operating system message? My best guesses are some kind of device setup issue. 2. Anyway I can fix things without re-installing again (since I belive the rest of the install was done fine, and it's a bit slow under ftp)? I assume I can use the 2 floopies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp) to restart the sysintall program and re-configure. Any other tips greatly appreciated... JM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message