From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 16: 2:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD975159B7 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 16:02:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18726; Fri, 28 May 1999 16:02:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 16:02:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Fabrizio Invernizzi Cc: FreeBSD QUESTIONS Subject: Re: Problem installing 3.1-RELEASE on a DIGITAL CELEBRIS GL5133 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 May 1999, Fabrizio Invernizzi wrote: > Hi > > I am installing FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE on a DIGITAL CELEBRIS GL5133 (with > scsi hard disk). > > The installantion procedure looks to work fine : > 1-I created a single slice (da0s1) > 2-I set this slice bootable > 3-I select no boot manager and use MBR > 4-I created the needed partitions (/,/var,/usr and swap) > 5-I selected the distribuion and the media > 6-I installed the system. > > Everything looks ok! > When I reboot this message appears > > missing operating system Boot DOS from a floppy and use FDISK to set the active partition bit on the FreeBSD slice. Sysinstall is pretty good at forgetting to set that bit. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message