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From: bhovey@crl.com (Brian T. Hovey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Booting problems after installation
Date: 14 Feb 1994 00:40:19 -0800
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I recently installed FreeBSD 1.0 on my system without any problems until
I rebooted.  I halted the system as mentioned, then rebooted.  I came up
with an "operating system missing" error message.  I noticed that the
floppy drive light was still on when I was asked to reboot.  I have an
IBM Leopard motherboard with the SCL2-66 processor with 8 megs.  My
controller is an Adaptec 1542C and I have a Micropolis 2210 1 gig drive.
I noticed that there is a file system and that the partition is active on
the BSD partition.  Is there a way I can manually make the hard drive
bootable?  Would updating from 1.0 to 1.0.2 help?

Thanks,
Brian
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Brian T. Hovey
bhovey@crl.com		"I finally got a fix for my Internet addiction"