Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:57:27 -0400 From: "Jeremy Kister" <freebsd-questions@jeremykister.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD install on SCSI: Missing Operating System Message-ID: <000501c458cd$d1f8cce0$0201090a@jeremy01>
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I'm installing FreeBSD on an Intel ISP2150 dual 450 server with a Seagate ST39173LC 9GB SCA SCSI disk on an Adaptec AIC-7896 controller. I have no cd-rom, have created the two necessary floppies, and can install via FTP. the whole installation process goes smooth, but upon reboot, I simply get 'Missing Operating System'. I've googled for this, and searched the archives, but there is too much garbage about other operating systems interfering. I have found references to the auto-detected logical geometry being wrong. I see no user configurable options about c/h/s in the adaptec bios. FreeBSD's fdisk detects the geometry as: 8683 Cylinders/64 heads/32 sectors for 17782784 sectors (8683MB) I've tried making the root slice 250MB, 150MB, 100MB, and 90MB, each yielding no meaningful difference. Reading Charles Swiger's freebsd-questions post of 20040122, I have installed Windows 2000 Server on this machine; it boots up and runs fine. I'm simply stumped here and don't know what direction to head in. any advice? Jeremy Kister http://jeremy.kister.net/
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