From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 1 17:03:51 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA14094 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 17:03:51 -0700 Received: from squid.umd.edu (squid.umd.edu [129.2.40.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA14081 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 17:03:48 -0700 Received: by squid.umd.edu (5.65/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA18759; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:12:13 -0400 From: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne) Message-Id: <9506020012.AA18759@squid.umd.edu> Subject: Re: Can't boot a new 2.0.5A system To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 95 20:12:13 EDT Cc: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1426.802040922@freefall.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 1, 95 2:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] 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". > > Geometry correct? > > Jordan > I have this same problem on my machine. A Pentium-90 with NCR scsi and 1.7 gig Micropolis drive. The boot floppy fdisk got the geometry wrong for some reason. (It is correct when the disk is probed...) I tried entering the correct geometry and it still wouldn't boot. I had to boot with the floppy and load hd(0,a)/kernel. I installed on a 1 gig ide drive on another machine and it worked fine. Why does the fdisk on the install disk give me funny geometry?? I tried using FreeBSD on the whole disk, and having some dos in the beginning... Also, install's fdisk gives me 7000 something cylinders, so I really doubt translation is going on anywhere... Does anybody have any ideas?? I will continue trying tomorrow. (I tried to manually write the boot blocks with disklabel also...) Oh, yeah, and disklabel says something like "superblock size = 0" Fred.