From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 01:47:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22221 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 01:47:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from s3000-01.magna.com.au (s3000-01.magna.com.au [203.4.212.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA22213 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 01:47:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgreen@rainbow.net.au) Received: from pc005 (saccess-08-030.magna.com.au [203.111.73.30]) by s3000-01.magna.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Magna Data/1.2) with SMTP id UAA08413; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:46:47 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <047b01be16c6$5e94d360$0500a8c0@pc005> From: "Richard Green" To: "Eric Hodel" , Subject: Re: NEWBIE: Boot problems Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:48:03 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3115.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I'm forwarding this to questions because they'll best be able to help, Thanks, I've solved the first part of this (user error!): > but you >may need to specify 0:da(0,a)kernel instead of 0:sd(0,a)kernel. I got the system to start by booting from floppy, then at the boot: prompt was able to continue booting from the hard disk using 0:sd(0,a)kernel (I'd previously misspelled kenel... doh!) > Of course I >very very very highly doubt that this is the case, as the BIOS is unable to find >the boot code. Is the partition with FreeBSD set active? Usually, when you get >a "missing OS" error the bios is trying to find a bootable portion of the HDD, >and can't. > Yes it is active. fdisk returns, in part... ... sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 519202 (2047 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg:Cly 0/ sector 63/ head254 ... I'm wondering if something to do with my h/w setup may have cause the mbr to be miswritten, in which case how does one write the boot record again? Thanks & regards Richard Green -snip- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message