Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 22:13:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager -> disk Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970516221133.15388A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <E0wSa5I-0000iF-00@rover.village.org>
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On Fri, 16 May 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > > OK. I've tried just about everything I can think of to make this > silly machine bootable. I selected boot easy in the install option, > but it somehow got trashed later. All I get when I boot is Operating > Sytem Missing. If I get my boot blocks off the floppy, I can then > boot from there. > > Warner > Did you try the old trick of using DOS fdisk to remove all partitions, then create big-as-possible DOS partition, then try to install FreeBSD? This will often sort of geometry problems, and has worked every time I had a "Missing Operation System" problem. Tom
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