Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:56:51 -0500 (EST) From: Marwan Fayed <s0121430@cs.laurentian.ca> To: "Brian D. Moffet" <brianm@moffetimages.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: disappearing mount points after install Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001271147360.5546-100000@eten-01.cs.laurentian.ca> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000126163626.007a0340@orac.moffetimages.com>
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Brian D. Moffet wrote: > At 03:59 PM 1/22/00 -0500, you wrote: > >FreeBSD loader does not start up, nor does the kernel (obviously). The > >error message I get back is literally translated as "No O.S." > > on the other versions of Intel Unix I have used dd the master boot block > out... > > If you want to get really daring, look at the first sector of the BIOS and see > if it starts with a "jump" command, e9 or eb or something like that. :-) > > If any of this is incorrect for FreeBSD, I hope someone lets me know, and lets > me know how it is incorrect. > Hi Brian, Through some pointing from others, and trial and error on my part, I discovered that my BIOS requires that my first bootable partition be a bootable DOS partition. What is most strange is that for some reason it is required to be at least 20Megs in size. I only discovered this after trying 2,5,10,15 megabyte partitions. Anyway, it works now as a dual boot machine. Even though I had to give up 20Megs (on an 800MB HD), at least it works... and I discovered I can use that space as FreeBSD swap space so it's not completely wasted. I should end by saying, "Thanks IBM for all the proprietary stuff you force on people" (can you sense the sarcasm!?) ;-) Marwan ps. The machine was an IBM Thinkpad 365XD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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