Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 18:40:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Rob Hartill <robh@imdb.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'no operating system' after 2.2 install on P6 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970406183821.7640E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970405212502.12995B-100000@localhost>
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On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Rob Hartill wrote: > > Get a DOS boot floppy with FDISK on it. Start it, run FDISK, and set one > > of the slices on your first disk to 'active'. > > Thanks. > > Turned out to be a problem with the controller. We'd disbaled > the 1gb translation after advice from elsewhere and it confused > the hell out of 2.2. At least that's the story at the moment.. he's > starting an install from scratch again now and fighting the rest of the > world for a 2k/s ftp link to ftp.freebsd.org Hm, I've never had trouble with translations. FreeBSD doesn't use it anyway. The best idea is to set it to something and leave it. The other thing you might try is putting a small DOS partition on the disk, then removing it in FreeBSD setup and using the whole disk for FreeBSD. I usually see this in problems with booteasy, but if the only disk is dedicated, then you could see this problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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