From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 21 9:31: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lion.plab.ku.dk (lion.plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A7C5150D8 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 09:31:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tobez@lion.plab.ku.dk) Received: (from tobez@localhost) by lion.plab.ku.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA07574; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 18:30:11 +0100 (CET) To: Stavros Patiniotis Cc: Anton Berezin , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installing 3.1 #2 References: From: Anton Berezin Date: 21 Mar 1999 18:30:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: Stavros Patiniotis's message of Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:19:12 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <86vhfueonw.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk> Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 - on FreeBSD 4.0-current Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stavros Patiniotis 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 The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message