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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!starlight.datlog.co.uk!kgraham From: kgraham@datlog.co.uk (Kevin Graham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Problem booting from HD Date: 14 Jun 1994 16:38:59 GMT Organization: Data Logic Limited (A Raytheon Company). Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2tkmfh$5dv@starlight.datlog.co.uk> References: <griffith.771232492@marsh> <2tbkfl$q4t@rigel.infinet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.datlog.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mark Foley (mfoley@infinet.com) wrote: : Don Griffiths (griffith@cs.curtin.edu.au) wrote: : : G'Day, [munch] : : but each time I try to boot it from the HD direct, I get the : : message "Missing Operating System". The PC has previously had : : MS-DOS 6.2 on the HD. Any Ideas? : : Don Griffiths. [munch...] : trash the disk - I think I used the 'verify surface' option (you're not : supposed to low-level format IDE drives). After cuisinarting the outer [burp] One of things with more recent Microsoft products, is that the partition table appears to be written slightly differently. I've had problems with DOS 6.x and NT, where a DOS "fdisk /mbr" have fixed the booting difficulty [as always YMMV...] Kevin. -- Kevin Graham. Small furry, with a strange affinity for heights... EMail: Kgraham@datlog.co.uk This text is a figment of your computers imagination, any particularly nasty bits were probably regurgitations of things you typed earlier...