Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 02:22:39 -0700 From: "Jim McLoughlin" <jimmcloughlin@earthlink.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: first time install questons Message-ID: <NCBBJEJOIHMJAPHOEEFPOEALELAA.jimmcloughlin@earthlink.net>
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Hi folks Have spent some time installing FBSD 4.6 via FTP. Everything seemed to go well, I got through the entire installation. But once I rebooted, It found the master boot record on my scsi drive ( the only hard drive in the box), and halted with the message "missing operating system" I installed one freebsd partition on the entire drive (no other OS), made it active for boot, and did not install a boot manager (default). I also used the automatic filesystem setup, since it suited my needs fine. I successfully resovled any device conflicts - the only ones were network based, and my ed0 interface is working since the ftp install successfully grabbed packages, sources, etc. My questions are: 1. What are the (probablt glaringly obvious) reasons I would get the missing operating system message? My best guesses are some kind of device setup issue. 2. Anyway I can fix things without re-installing again (since I belive the rest of the install was done fine, and it's a bit slow under ftp)? I assume I can use the 2 floopies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp) to restart the sysintall program and re-configure. Any other tips greatly appreciated... JM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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