Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:25:53 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Anders Chr. Skoe" <skoe@owlnet.rice.edu> Subject: Re: Anyone resolved "Missing operating system" issue? Message-ID: <XFMail.000713172553.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20000712112242.C29642@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On 12-Jul-00 Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 July 2000 at 11:35:58 -0500, Anders Chr. Skoe wrote: >> Howdy, folks! >> >> unfortunately, this email follows a pretty good history of posts regarding >> the "Missing operating system" error. we install 3.2 with no problems on >> our western digital WDE4360-1807A3, but it just won't boot. our bios is >> the adaptec AHA 2940 Ultra/Ultra W BIOS v1.23. >> >> a) if we only create a freebsd partition, and try to boot it, we get the >> infamous "Missing operating system" error. >> >> b) if we create both dos & freebsd partitions, we get to the boot manager, >> but selecting freebsd doesn't work. we've tried putting the freebsd >> partition first as well as the dos partition first, but it makes no >> difference. we've also tried various combinations of partition sizes. >> >> c) setting the drive geometry to 4095/64/32 doesn't help (someone >> suggested this in an earlier mail). >> >> d) using FDISK we've set the active partition to the freebsd >> partition. it doesn't help. >> >> e) we can boot from the floppy & cdrom drives. >> >> we would really appreciate some useful feedback 'cause it's drivin' us >> crazy. > > This sounds like a geometry issue. Have you selected LBA in the BIOS > setup? If so, have you tried both "dangerously dedicated" and > Microsoft compatible partitions? Eek! Don't use dangerously dedicated on SCSI. It causes SCSI disks to break horribly. > Greg -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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