Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:09:00 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: error : "Missing operating system" Message-ID: <448xlm198z.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20060817004733.89419.qmail@web60118.mail.yahoo.com> (Peter's message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:47:33 -0400 (EDT)") References: <20060817004733.89419.qmail@web60118.mail.yahoo.com>
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Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> writes: > On a test system I have 3 SATA drives. On the 1st drive I installed > FBSD 6.0, updated sources/ports, build and install world/kernel. > Rebooted. All is well. > > I set up RAID0 on the other 2 drives using my (Tyan) mobo's controller > (NVRAID). This array shows up as /dev/ar0. > > I proceeded to set up a filesystem on ar0: > > # fdisk -I /dev/ar0 > # bsdlabel -w /dev/ar0s1 > # bsdlabel -e /dev/ar0s1 > > e: * * 4.2BSD > > # newfs /dev/ar0s1e > # mkdir /vol1 > # mount /dev/ar0s1e /vol1 > > Everything worked fine. df shows ar0s1e as 300 GB. > > I edit /etc/fstab: > > /dev/ar0s1e /vol1 ufs rw 2 2 > > I reboot: > > # reboot > > "Missing operating system" > > Where did I go wrong and what should I do now? You haven't touched the original boot drive as far as I can see, so the first thing to try is to adjust the BIOS to try booting that drive before the RAID array. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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