From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 11 9:36:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marsh.owlnet.rice.edu (marsh-49.owlnet.rice.edu [128.42.49.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4EA37BAE6 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:36:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skoe@owlnet.rice.edu) Received: from jungle.owlnet.rice.edu (jungle.owlnet.rice.edu [128.42.49.103]) by marsh.owlnet.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA02083; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:35:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (skoe@localhost) by jungle.owlnet.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA07954; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:35:58 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: jungle.owlnet.rice.edu: skoe owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:35:58 -0500 (CDT) From: "Anders Chr. Skoe" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Anyone resolved "Missing operating system" issue? 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 Howdy, folks! unfortunately, this email follows a pretty good history of posts regarding the "Missing operating system" error. we install 3.2 with no problems on our western digital WDE4360-1807A3, but it just won't boot. our bios is the adaptec AHA 2940 Ultra/Ultra W BIOS v1.23. a) if we only create a freebsd partition, and try to boot it, we get the infamous "Missing operating system" error. b) if we create both dos & freebsd partitions, we get to the boot manager, but selecting freebsd doesn't work. we've tried putting the freebsd partition first as well as the dos partition first, but it makes no difference. we've also tried various combinations of partition sizes. c) setting the drive geometry to 4095/64/32 doesn't help (someone suggested this in an earlier mail). d) using FDISK we've set the active partition to the freebsd partition. it doesn't help. e) we can boot from the floppy & cdrom drives. we would really appreciate some useful feedback 'cause it's drivin' us crazy. a & j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message