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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!nntp.msstate.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!news.doit.wisc.edu!fozzie!porter From: porter@fozzie.chem.wisc.edu (Ron Porter) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: "missing operating system" error Date: 1 Sep 1994 05:21:08 GMT Organization: Division of Information Technology Lines: 21 Message-ID: <343oc4$c5g@news.doit.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fozzie.chem.wisc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hello, I recently tried to install FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on a maxtor 7546a(546Mb) disk. I started with a DOS partition of 200 Mb and am trying to put FreeBSD on the remaining 346Mb. During installation i got a warning that when installing on a disk with more than 1024 cylinders that FreeBSD might not coexist well with another operating system(1060 is the recomended cylinders). I got through much of the install process with the floppies but when trying to boot from the FreeBSD partition i get an error saying " missing operating system". The Dos partition boots fine but changing the active partition to the FreeBSD partition does no good. I have copied the kernal to wd0a several time with no error. The FreeBSD partition shows up as the first partition in fdisk even though i installed it after the dos partition, does this make sense?. Thanks, Ron -- *********************************************************** *Ron Porter porter@chem.wisc.edu * *Univ. Of Wisconsin Chemistry Dept * *Madison, Wi 53706 608-262-0190 * ***********************************************************