From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 17 13:06:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11164 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa2-01.ix.netcom.com [206.214.137.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11144 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:06:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01330; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:05:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807172005.NAA01330@ix.netcom.com> From: Thomas Dean To: craigs@os.com CC: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <00e501bdb1a9$8d7b2850$02dd71d1@fargo.os.com> (craigs@os.com) Subject: Re: FreeBSD only bootstraps from floppy Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The basic "Insert disk and press any key to continue." no boot sector found message is comming from the BIOS attempt to boot. The BIOS wants to find a DOS partition table and boot record. If you made the disk dangerously dedicated, you may have a problem. You can try the DOS fdisk command, 'FDISK /MBR'. Before you do that, post the output of the FreeBSD commands, 'fdisk sd0' and 'disklabel -r sd0' > Obviously I installed this with the controller in a non-FreeBSD conforming > state. I'd like to avoid newfs'ing the system if possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message