From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 23 09:45:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA08072 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 09:45:15 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA08066 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 09:45:11 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA03318; Thu, 23 Feb 95 10:38:37 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9502231738.AA03318@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: how to get OS-BS to see FreeBSD 950210-SNAP w/o clobbering DOS & Linux? To: muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 10:38:36 MST Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502231020.CAA25455@idiom.com> from "David Muir Sharnoff" at Feb 23, 95 02:20:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Got a slight problem: OS-BS claims that there is "No operating system" > when I try to boot FreeBSD. I can boot fine by using the boot floppy > and telling it to boot off sd(0,a)/kernel. Need pfdisk output for the drive from a boot from a DOS floppy and a boot from the DOS partition of the HD. If the floppy one shows a single partition of drive type 0x54, then you need to add 63 cylinders to the apparent location of the slice. It's important to know for an absolute certainty if it's the DOS MBR, OS-BS, or the BSD BIOS boot that is claiming no operating system. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.