Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:16:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: John Flickinger <jflick@phenixcable.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot error,"operating system not found" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807301616100.17630-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35C0D894.51278553@phenixcable.net>
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, John Flickinger wrote: > I have 2.2.6 installed on a PII233, with IDE hard drive (4.3G), and have > win95 as > the second OS. During bootup, I frequently get a message"Operating > System Not Found". > Needless to say, my heart skips a beat. I have always been able to get > it to work by turning off the power, then rebooting. I may get the > "Operating System Not Found" message two or three times, then the usual > F1-F3 message comes up, and I proceed as normal. I am running the boot > manager that came with the Walnut Creek CD, . Any Suggestions? Thanks a > lot. Your BIOS is unhappy or the active partition bit isn't set properly. Use DOS FDISK and make sure the active partition bit is set to one of the partitions. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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