From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 11 9:55:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from markl.com (markl.com [209.69.36.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B3237C016 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:55:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from squirrel@hammis.com) Received: from localhost (squirrel@localhost) by markl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA98245; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:54:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from squirrel@hammis.com) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:54:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Damon Hammis X-Sender: squirrel@markl.com To: "Anders Chr. Skoe" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone resolved "Missing operating system" issue? 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 Set the FreeBSD partition as bootable during the install. On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Anders Chr. Skoe wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message