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Date:      Sat, 17 May 1997 07:52:13 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot Manager -> disk 
Message-ID:  <E0wSju9-0001ay-00@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 May 1997 22:13:51 PDT." <Pine.NEB.3.95.970516221133.15388A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> 
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970516221133.15388A-100000@haven.uniserve.com>  

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In message <Pine.NEB.3.95.970516221133.15388A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> Tom Samplonius writes:
:   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.

I don't have geometry problems, just no boot manager at all.  I tried
fdisk/mbr and marking the FreeBSD partition active, but to no avail.

Warner



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