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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!psgrain!rainrgnews0!pacifier!news.alpha.net!MathWorks.Com!news.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!emory!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!sugar!guenther From: guenther@NeoSoft.com (Ed Guenther) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: FreeBSD and IDE Drives Date: 11 Aug 1994 20:21:28 GMT Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services -- +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32e188$3me@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sugar.neosoft.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'm a novice in Unix, trying to install FreeBSD on a brand new IDE drive. The drive came with MSDOS configuration. I've deleted all partitions. FreeBSD recognizes the drive, installation starts. When I get to the point where I am prompted to reboot the machine from the hard drive, the PC reports "No Operating System" and halts. My question is: does FreeBSD have a problem with IDE hard drives? Do I need to make a low level format? Is this OS incompatible with older PC BIOS? Is there anything I can do to get the BIOS to recognize the FreeBSD OS? Any help is appreciated. Eb.