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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Booting problems after installation
Date: 17 Feb 1994 19:50:33 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <2jnddj$eib@crl2.crl.com>, Brian T. Hovey <bhovey@crl.com> wrote:
>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. 

This should be in the FAQ.  I'm assuming that you have more than one operating
system on your hard-drive, and most likely it is DOS.

You need to use the number of heads, cylinders and sectors that DOS uses
for the FreeBSD install.  (Get it from the BIOS table or use pfdisk in
the tools/dos_tools directory on the archive site) to determine the
translated disk parameters and MAKE sure that the install is using those
numbers.

By default it uses the non-translated parameters in order to maximize
disk performance, but this doesn't work with other operating systems who
use translated parameters.

> I noticed that the
>floppy drive light was still on when I was asked to reboot.

That's expected.

  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?

Re-install using the translated parameters.  Also, you'll want to upgrade
from 1.0 to 1.0.2 in order to upgrade to the 1.1 release out RSN.


Nate
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