Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:43:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Manes <anarchy@crl.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: laptop installation Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990811163449.9456C-100000@crl.crl.com>
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I was trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 on my Dell Inspiron 7000, and I keep getting a 'Missing Operating System' on boot. It installs perfectly on a 1gb partition I made using PQ Magic (resized the 9.5gb FAT32 Dell creates). The only thing I can think of is that since the partition is at the end of the drive, it crosses (or is beyond) the 1024 cylinder limit, thus making it unbootable by the bios through the mbr. That's of course if I'm right about that limitation. Is there any way to make FreeBSD use a bootblock instead of going through the mbr? I believe I had the same problem on my desktop's 9gb drive when it was at the end, and I thus moved it to the beginning of the 2gb secondary. Linux works perfectly at the end of the desktop 9gb drive utilizing a boot block... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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