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To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.0.5 BETA - missing OS using whole disk 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jun 95 12:32:18 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 16:57:12 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.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