From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 23:18:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA24693 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:18:18 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA24687 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:18:17 -0700 Received: from aztec.co.za (aztec.co.za [196.7.70.131]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id XAA27936 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:17:24 -0700 Received: from harvard.contech.co.za by aztec.co.za with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0t2uPv-000KfqC; Wed, 11 Oct 95 08:13 EET Message-Id: Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Tony Harverson" Organization: Network Academy To: questions@freebsd.org, "Alok K. Dhir" Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 08:18:13 +2:00 Subject: Re: Boot off of sd0 Reply-to: harverso@aztec.co.za Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.10) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > The problem I'm having is that I can't get the system (running > 951005-snap of 2.1-stable) to boot off of sd0. I think I may have > screwed something up during the disklabel portion of the custom install. > If I boot without a floppy in the drive, I get a > "Missing Operating System" message from the BIOS (I assume its from the > BIOS, anyway). If I boot off of a boot floppy and enter "sd(0,a)/kernel" > at the boot prompt, everything comes up beautifully. I don't know if this will help at all, but I was having this problem on a machine about 1/2 year ago running 2.0.5. The install seemed to be getting confused about the proper disklablelling. I used the advice in the faq about putting a small dos partition on there with fdisk before starting and the problem went away when I next installed ( and nuked the icky dos partition ;) Tony