From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 0:11:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bang.esc.net.au (bang.esc.net.au [203.25.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675C114BDC for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 00:11:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stavros@esc.net.au) Received: from bang.esc.net.au (stavros@bang.esc.net.au [203.25.185.2]) by bang.esc.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA11021; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:41:00 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:41:00 +1030 (CST) From: Stavros Patiniotis To: Anton Berezin Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installing 3.1 #2 In-Reply-To: <86oglpjzmp.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19 Mar 1999, Anton Berezin wrote: > Stavros Patiniotis writes: Thanks for everyone who offered support. After reading my SCSI 'quickstart" quide, it suggested a LOW level format, which I completed, and now it all works fine. Thanks once again > > I can't actually get to LINT, since my computer won't boot :( > > > > Any other suggestions? > > Is the partition on which FreeBSD resides marked as ``active'' in MBR? > ``Missing operating system'' may indicate that ``active'' flag is set > to an empty/unused partition or is not set at all. > > You can try booting from the installation diskettes, go to the Fixit > option, choose Floppy option, switch to the Fixit shell prompt > (Alt-F4) and type > > fdisk da0 > > (or whatever is the disk you installed FreeBSD on) to see the layout > of partitions. Flag 80 (active) is what you are looking for. > > If I guessed your problem correctly, you can fix it by using > > fdisk -a da0 > > and answering correctly to the questions the program will ask. > > Hope this helps, > > -- > Anton Berezin > The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > Regards, Stavros Patiniotis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -System Administrator / Network Manager Escape.Net - - 465b South Rd - -email: stavros@esc.net.au Keswick SA 5035 - -URL: http://www.esc.net.au Ph 82932526 Fax 82932949- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message