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Date:      Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:44:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org>
To:        Jeff Henning <jeh@anubis.network.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Look familiar? --> "Unable to find operating system"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960228134131.3209C-100000@moonpie.w8hd.org>
In-Reply-To: <9602271913.AA10654@anubis.network.com>

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I had a simialr problem, it appears you must ba able to fit the disk 
partition with root (/) mounted on it within the first 1 gig of the disk.

If you want to be able to boot win95, install win95 first and make that 
partition smaller.

regards
kim

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kimc@w8hd.org


On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Jeff Henning wrote:

> 
> 
> Hackers and others,
> 
> Last night I completed what was supposedly a "successful
> installation of FreeBSD 2.1 on my 2nd SCSI disk.  I selected
> the option to create the boot manager (I made the boot floppy
> and installed from CD ROM as recommended in the doc).  When
> the installation was complete and I rebooted the machine
> (removing the boot floppy from the A: drive first) I got
> the message:
> 
> Operating system not found
> 
> For some reason I see the message "DOS space > 1 gig" before
> the system tries to boot but I don't think this is the real
> problem.  I'm also not exactly sure how to change this since
> I didn't see any obvious options in the auto-scsi menu.
> 
> The system:
> 
> Micron millenia plus
> 150MHz pentium
> 16MB RAM
> Buslogic 946c SCSI card
> 2 1-Gig Connor 1085S drives, the 2nd dedicated to FreeBSD
> 6X Plextor CD ROM
> SoundBlaster 32 AWE sound card
> Diamond Stealth 64 w/2M VRAM
> 17" Nokia monitor
> 
> I had to use the -c option to make the boot floppy kernel look
> for my SCSI card because it was at IO port address 0x334 instead
> of the 0x330 that it expects.  Any help you can give me would
> be greatly appreciated.  At this point I'm not sure if I need
> to re-install Windows 95 and DOS or not.  I set up all of the
> filesystems on sd1 so the Windows disk shouldn't have been
> overwritten.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jeff Henning
> 
> 
> 



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