Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:52:44 -0400 From: "Alexandre =?iso-8859-1?q?D=E9ry=2Fdgt=2Fsct?=" <Alexandre.Dery@sct.gouv.qc.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Error loading operating system Message-ID: <OF9F332837.BF9911C8-ON85256AC7.0051AFC9@sct.gouv.qc.ca>
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Hi everybody !
I finally was able to do an installation (the labeling part was a little
confusing until I RTFM !)... but on reboot, the os loader installed fails
to boot FreeBSD (but it can boot my NT alright).
The message I get is : Error loading operating system
I have two options at time :
F1
F5 (disk1)
F1 boots NT
F5 gives me 'Error loading operating system' right away.
I wish it would be a more helpfull error message....
My setup is the following
My install medium is a FreeBSD 4.3 CD (but started the installation with
boot floppies).
The machine is a dual P-233MMX, 384mb ram, 2 scsi disks (with NT4 on first
disk)
Motherboard is and Intel DK440LX, embeded scsi controler aic-7895)
I have 2 scsi disks :
da0 : Windows NT 4 server
da1 :
2gig fat16 partition
2gig NTFS partition
4gig FreeBSD partition
I did a 'Standard Installation', boot loader installed on first disk only.
I used Auto Partitioning for the FreeBSD slice (da1s3).
I remember setting the partition bootable.
Is this a problem of the 1024th cylinder or something ?
I am completely new to FreeBSD but I know my way around Unix. I usually
work with Slackware Linux (which I know well) and some SunOS.
Thanks a lot !
Alex :)
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