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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problem installing FreeBSD, tragedy! Can't boot from HDD anymore!
Message-ID: <2a5vak$pka@alva.ge.com>
From: steve@combs (Stephen F. Combs)
Date: 21 Oct 1993 12:29:08 GMT
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M.C. Wong (wongm@ipc5.lat.oz.au) wrote:
: 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


Try 'fdisk /mbr' to restore the master boot record of your hard disk.
Unfortunatly for your problem, I don't run anything BUT FreeBSD on my
machine at home (no dos partition, no nuthin'...just FreeBSD).

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