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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!panix!cmcl2!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!cchen From: cchen@cs.sunysb.edu (temp acct to clean dir) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD installation problem Date: 7 Jun 1994 03:42:09 GMT Organization: State University of New York, Stony Brook Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2t0qaj$5v4@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sbsynchem.cs.sunysb.edu I followed the floppy installation procedures. But at the step (step 4) when I'm to boot from the hard disk. I'm getting the "Missing operting system.." message, from PC bios I guess. Originally I thought I was because my hard disk have more than 1024 cylinders, and I'm giving too much space (700MB) to FreeBSD. But I'm getting the same message after making FreeBSD occupy a 400MB partition. Does anyone have any idea of what's happening? My configuration: PCI/I-P5MP3 Motherboard, 16MB Ram, 512K cache Award BIOS v4.50 1542CF BIOS v2.01 (Sync Negotiation/FAST SCSI enabled, don't know if it does anything, but doesn't seem to cause any errors) Maxtor1240S No serial/parallel port