From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 02:20:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA00607 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:20:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA00515 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA01871; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:19:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:19:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: DoGmAx cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error: Missing Operating System 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 Mon, 22 Jun 1998, DoGmAx wrote: > Hey All, > > I have this PC that I trying to install FreeBSD on. It is a 486/100Mhz, > 16 meg. Mr. BIOS OPT82C499 9/94. > > The installation went ok. Booted off the boot disk and installed it. > When I reboot the PC to start up the OS I get an error message that says: > Missing Operating System. > > I know this a forum for FreeBSD but has anyone ran into this problem? Yes, it's a sysinstall thing. Use DOS FDISK to reset the active partition bit to the OS you'd like to boot, probably the one on your primary disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message