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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1297 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6056 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!ipc5.lat.oz.au!wongm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problem installing FreeBSD, tragedy! Can't boot from HDD anymore! Message-ID: <CF6nJF.42F@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@ipc5.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 06:33:15 GMT Sender: news@latcs1.lat.oz.au (news) References: <CF6D73.KEJ@latcs1.lat.oz.au> Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Nntp-Posting-Host: ipc5.lat.oz.au Lines: 40 In article <CF6D73.KEJ@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) writes: >Hi, > Once again I run into some unexpected problem when I tried to install >FreeBSD-1.0 Epsillon from scratch. Please help! > > . > . > . [deleted] Oh no, the wipping out of my primary DOS partition problem during the FreeBSD installtion actually causes me more damage than expected! After I get rid of the only weird size FreeBSD partition (24M) on my CP3544 using fdisk, I recreate one primary DOS parition, set it to active, format it format c: /s, and copy some files into it, then boot up! Soon after the POST and BIOS message, I got the following message : No bootable partition I thought I might have left the partition unactivated, so I reboot from floppy, activate it from fdisk, double check everything! And the problem still resumes. So I thought it might be something wrong when I create the partition, so I repeat everything, but everytime I boot up, the problem is still there! I tried installing other O/S (Window NT) and the same problem resume!!! Can someone see what the problem is ? Now I can no longer boot from my hard disk, but if I boot from floppy, I still can read/write my primary DOS (c:) partition! That is very weird, it seems as if there is something wrong in the hard disk, but if so , when I run checkit, it passes everything without complaining any error/problem. chkdsk didn't report any bad sectors either! What happened here ? Can someone help me please ? I should have gone for an upgrade from 386bsd to FreeBSD if I know I will run into problem like this! Many thanks in advance and email replies please! - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M. C Wong) -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au