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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Madhu Kodali wrote:

> Pentium 150
> Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI
> Quantum XP34300W SCSI HDD (4.2gig)
> 3com PCI Ethernet
> 
> Trying to use the entire disk for Freebsd and after completing the 
> installation the system hangs and after rebooting again comes back with 
> "Missing Operating System".

Use a DOS boot floppy and reset the active partition to a partition on
your first disk.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major