From owner-freebsd-questions  Sat Apr  5 11:48:44 1997
Return-Path: <owner-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA23844
          for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 11:48:44 -0800 (PST)
Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA23839
          for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 11:48:42 -0800 (PST)
Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA05899; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 11:48:32 -0800 (PST)
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 11:48:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
X-Sender: dwhite@localhost
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Rob Hartill <robh@imdb.com>
cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 'no operating system' after 2.2 install on P6
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970405145340.3179B-100000@localhost>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970405114800.5894A-100000@localhost>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Rob Hartill wrote:

> I'm trying to help someone install 2.2 onto some remote (from me)
> machines and he's hit this problem... after doing a minimal install on new
> hardware (4 separate P6s) the machines fail to boot from the harddisk
> and report the 'no operating system' error.

Get a DOS boot floppy with FDISK on it.  Start it, run FDISK, and set one
of the slices on your first disk to 'active'.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major