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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!nikhefk!eloy From: eloy@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl (Eloy Domingos) Subject: Why does FreeBSD only boot from floppy for me? Message-ID: <1994Feb16.102445.5901@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl> Organization: NIKHEFK Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 10:24:45 GMT Lines: 29 Hello, yesterday I installed FreeBSD 1.0. I have a SCSI disk and an IDE disk. To prevent problems I disabled the IDE disk in the BIOS. I installed FreeBSD successfully on the SCSI disk, on which there is also another operating system (Linux) consisting of 3 partitions, so the FreeBSD partition is 'DOS' partition 4 starting at 600MB (it is a 1 GB disk). I saw with fdisk that this 4th partition was made active by the installation. However, since I always booted from the IDE drive, there was no MBR present at all on the SCSI disk. I think FreeBSD also didn't install one because I didn't use the whole disk for it. So I did a fdisk/mbr from DOS which installed the standard MBR on the SCSI drive. I made sure the FreeBSD partition was still active, and tried to boot from the SCSI drive (IDE drive still disabled). However, the system prints "Mission operating system" (or something like that) and then halts. It seems like the MBR tries to boot from the FreeBSD partition but it doesn't recognize a valid operating system there, understandable because DOS won't recognize FreeBSD. Do I need a special MBR present to be able to boot? If so, how do I install it? Thanks in advance, Eloy