Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 16:57:12 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5 BETA - missing OS using whole disk Message-ID: <20616.802483032@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jun 95 12:32:18 EDT." <199506061632.MAA02545@spoon.beta.com>
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> Well, I just tried a FreeBSD 2.0.5 Install using the "whole disk" > when fdisking. I get "Missing Operating system" when trying to boot > (booting from install floppy and selecting sd(0,a)/kernel works > fine. As I asked Brian - this may be a problem with not setting a partition active, since I don't believe the boot manager gets installed (whether you ask for it or not) in the case where there's only one OS to manage. Not entirely sure about that, however, and I'll ask Brian and anyone else having this problem to try setting their FreeBSD slice "active" in the partition editor. If it works, I'll doc it as a work-around for now and solve the real problem later (sanity checking for no active slice and (A)ll disk install method). Jordan
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