Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:18:12 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone resolved "Missing operating system" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007121401440.4789-100000@pemaquid.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <20000712125711.M30262@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Kinda cool - this came with no FROM from wantadilla.lemis.com The answer is two of them: Dell Latitude LM P133 circa 1997 and an LM M166MMX of the same year. Note that the ONLY path that gave me any trouble at all is using a FreeBSD parition only; the option that any sane person would be talked out of by the warnings :) On -1 xxx -1, it was written: > On Tuesday, 11 July 2000 at 22:30:30 -0400, Doug Denault wrote: > > 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 [cut] > > > > I encountered the same characteristics installing 3.3 and 4.0 on two > > different Dell Latitude notebooks trying the FreeBSD only setup. It > > appeared that the install went fine, lots of "writing this" messages. The > > system just would not boot. It seemed that no boot record was installed. > > In this path if you run sysinstall the "w" option does not appear on the > > menu where you set the disk parms and each time when I boot from the > > floppies there was partition was not marked bootable. > > > > In consulting with a FreeBSD "veteran", we reached the conclusion this > > option just did not work (at least on this system). > > > > In my case disk geometry was not an issue, as long as I used an DOS > > partition table. > > Which model was this? I've never had trouble installing on Latitudes. > > Greg _____ Douglas Denault doug@safeport.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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