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Date:      Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:50:42 +0100 (CET)
From:      Marcel Stangenberger <marcel@hayholt.org>
To:        Bruno Campanelli <bcampanelli@quipo.it>
Cc:        freeBSD-questions@freeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problems installing FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20030102184847.A177@eldar.hayholt.org>
In-Reply-To: <023201c2b287$1fcaaae0$6fd9b550@computer>
References:  <023201c2b287$1fcaaae0$6fd9b550@computer>

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> I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm
> having a lot of difficulty installing it.  I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16
> MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball
> disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive.  The installation works just
> fine, but when I try to reboot the system, I get the message "Missing
> Operating System".
>
>

sounds like the partition is not bootable

start /stand/sysinstall

goto configuration and start fdisk

place the bar on the freebsd partition and press "s"
after that press W and exit sysinstall.

to get into it simply start the machine from the BSD cdrom

Marcel

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