From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 1 09:58:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA25435 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 09:58:42 -0700 Received: from cancer.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.250]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA25425 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 09:58:27 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by cancer.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA02639; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 00:58:28 +0800 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 00:58:27 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Can't boot a new 2.0.5A system Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I don't know how you other folks did it, but I can't boot a freshly installed 2.0.5A disk. I go through all the steps, choosing logical choices, but then when it goes to reboot, I get "Missing operating system". Disk is a Quantum Empire 1080S, using the entire disk for FreeBSD. I tried it both with and without a boot manager. No difference. I noticed the partition editor creates a small 22-block partition when I say "Use entire disk". No way to delete it, so I figure that's some sort of boot code thingy. The "Make startable" command isn't documented anywhere, but I tried it on my FreeBSD partition. Still won't boot. What's the secret? I have two pages of handwritten notes on bugs/glitches/typos in the installer alone, so don't go pressing that CD-ROM just yet. ;-) -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org