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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zodiac.cca.cr.rockwell.com!apollo1.cacd.cr.rockwell.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD only boot from floppy for me? Date: 17 Feb 1994 19:57:46 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2k0i7q$7vm@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1994Feb16.102445.5901@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <1994Feb16.102445.5901@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl>, Eloy Domingos <eloy@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl> wrote: >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). Do both FreeBSD and Linux use the same driver parameters (heads, cylinders, sectors)? If not, you need to re-install one or the other so that they both agree on the disk parameters. >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. Doubtful. Will Linux still boot? Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.