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 -- 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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