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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!qns1.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!primenet!netnews.asu.edu !asuvax!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IDE Drives Date: 11 Aug 1994 21:56:31 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32e6qf$kb9@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <32e188$3me@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <32e188$3me@uuneo.neosoft.com> guenther@NeoSoft.com (Ed Guenther) writes: ] 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. THis is probably not the group to post this question, since it is FreeBSD specific. You should probably be posting to comp.os.386.bsd.? or mailing to freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com. However, I believe if you will use clylinder 1 instead of 0 (or 0 instead of 1) you will defeat the geometry translation problem which is giving you the error. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.