From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 13:09:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17471 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:09:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17466 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:09:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from direct-source.com.direct-source.com (ppp99.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.99]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA21334; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:05:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:02:42 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: Richard Green cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEWBIE: Boot problems In-Reply-To: <030a01be16b0$1b434080$0500a8c0@pc005> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm taking this out of -newbies and into -questions where it belongs. > Thanks for your reply... I tried using the dip switches to switch off the > 1540CF BIOS, then I tried removing the card altogether, and still I get > 'missing operating system'. Is it possible that my hardware config caused so > issue during the set-up stage? Most likely, yes. If you have a MSDOS boot disk, try booting off of it then type fdisk /mbr that may fix the problem. Off the top of my head, I'd slap the CDROM drive onto the same controller with the hard drive and rerun the install. Somebody else on the list may have another suggestion though. :) > I'm sure the mbr is being read from my SCSI disk upon boot, since with > different install attempts, i tried using the boot loader program (1st > attempt) and using the direct booting. Upon booting the 1st config I got the > boot loader messages, on the second, I simply get 'operating system > missing'. fdisk /mbr should help with this problem. I have no idea how to do the same thing in FreeBSD though. Somebody enlighten us? :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message