Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:22:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Anders Chr. Skoe" <skoe@owlnet.rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone resolved "Missing operating system" issue? Message-ID: <20000712112242.C29642@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007111029390.4577-100000@jungle.owlnet.rice.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007111029390.4577-100000@jungle.owlnet.rice.edu>
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On Tuesday, 11 July 2000 at 11:35:58 -0500, 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. This sounds like a geometry issue. Have you selected LBA in the BIOS setup? If so, have you tried both "dangerously dedicated" and Microsoft compatible partitions? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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