Date: Thu, 1 Jun 95 20:12:13 EDT From: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne) To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot a new 2.0.5A system Message-ID: <9506020012.AA18759@squid.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <1426.802040922@freefall.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 1, 95 2:08 pm
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> > > I don't know how you other folks did it, but I can't boot a > > freshly installed 2.0.5A disk. I go through all the steps, choosing > > logical choices, but then when it goes to reboot, I get "Missing > > operating system". > > Geometry correct? > > Jordan > I have this same problem on my machine. A Pentium-90 with NCR scsi and 1.7 gig Micropolis drive. The boot floppy fdisk got the geometry wrong for some reason. (It is correct when the disk is probed...) I tried entering the correct geometry and it still wouldn't boot. I had to boot with the floppy and load hd(0,a)/kernel. I installed on a 1 gig ide drive on another machine and it worked fine. Why does the fdisk on the install disk give me funny geometry?? I tried using FreeBSD on the whole disk, and having some dos in the beginning... Also, install's fdisk gives me 7000 something cylinders, so I really doubt translation is going on anywhere... Does anybody have any ideas?? I will continue trying tomorrow. (I tried to manually write the boot blocks with disklabel also...) Oh, yeah, and disklabel says something like "superblock size = 0" Fred.
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