Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:29:11 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Anders Chr. Skoe" <skoe@owlnet.rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Anyone resolved "Missing operating system" issue? Message-ID: <XFMail.000713172911.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007111029390.4577-100000@jungle.owlnet.rice.edu>
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On 11-Jul-00 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. > > a & j If you could, please try to install the latest current snapshot of 5.0 from current.FreeBSD.org. I've recently committed some changes in the way we boot regarding the 1024 cylinder limit that may help some. If that doesn't, can you please provide the output of fdisk on the relevant disks? I.e., boot from a floppy, then type 'fdisk da0' as root and e-mail that info back? -- 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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