From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 10:23:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA07047 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 10:23:25 -0800 Received: from moon.pr.erau.edu (root@moon.pr.erau.edu [192.101.135.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA07041 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 10:23:23 -0800 Received: from moon.pr.erau.edu by moon.pr.erau.edu with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #16) id m0t9yrh-0001zoC; Mon, 30 Oct 95 11:23 MST Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:23:20 -0700 (MST) From: Stephen Waits To: Eric Primeau cc: questions@freebsd.org, lmcerpr@LMC.ericsson.se Subject: Re: ioctl DIOCWLABEL ?!? (Re: Missing operating system) In-Reply-To: <9510301744.AA00395@wheatear.lmc.ericsson.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Eric Primeau wrote: > Here's my current situation: I got rid of the "Missing OS" message > somehow and installed Booteasy manually. It now allows me to select > between both disks; however when I try booting of "freebsd", it > returns to the F? prompt. (Better than before, but no cigar.) Sounds like a disk geometry problem. Usually, if DOS is already on your disk somewhere, you won't have this problem -but it seems that you are. You should get 'pfdisk' from the FreeBSD/tools/dos-tools (or something like that) directory on ftp.freebsd.org. Run it from dos, and note the disk geometry. Then, when installing FreeBSD, manually set your geometry to match the geometry reported by 'pfdisk'. Good luck. --Steve (http://pr.erau.edu/~swaits)