Date: 21 Mar 1999 18:30:11 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk> To: Stavros Patiniotis <stavros@esc.net.au> Cc: Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing 3.1 #2 Message-ID: <86vhfueonw.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk> In-Reply-To: Stavros Patiniotis's message of Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:19:12 %2B1030 (CST) References: <Pine.BSI.4.02.9903211306160.24061-100000@bang.esc.net.au>
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Stavros Patiniotis <stavros@esc.net.au> writes: >> Is the partition on which FreeBSD resides marked as ``active'' in >> MBR? ``Missing operating system'' may indicate that ``active'' >> flag is set to an empty/unused partition or is not set at all. > Ok, I did this, and the partition was not marked as active. I have > now set it to active, and upon rebooting, it didn't work (didn't > boot). I checked the configuration, and it was still set as active > (on PARTITION 1). > How do we know which PARTITION to make active? (When I setup the > disk I only made one partition with FreeBSD taking up the whole > thing) Can you provide us with the output of fdisk da0? It is difficult to say anything specific without actually seeing this. Oh! BTW, can it be that you have any IDE devices as a master? Disks, CD-ROMs, whatever? > Oh if I boot using the fixit disk, and set the boot drive as > 0:da(0,a)/kernel all works ok Of course, as it should. -- Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk> The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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