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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!news From: gfm@werple.apana.org.au (Graham Menhennitt) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [FreeBSD 1.1.5.1] Installaction didn't make my HD bootable Date: 4 Oct 1994 11:30:40 +1000 Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne Lines: 25 Message-ID: <36qb80$a0k@werple.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] I asked this question a couple of weeks ago but didn't get any response. Could somebody please have a look at this. I have installed FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 from the 3 floppies, the bin distribution and then the source distribution. I am installing to a machine with a 1.3Gb Conner SCSI drive (the only HD in the machine), connected to an Adaptec 1542B. The drive has a 100Mb DOS 6.2 partition on the front of the drive followed by the FreeBSD partition on the remainder. I do not want to boot DOS (I will use the partition for Wine) so I don't see any need for os-bs etc. I installed DOS and then FreeBSD. The FreeBSD installation does not seem to have written the boot information correctly. Even though the FreeBSD partition is active, I can't boot from it. I get a message "Missing operating system". I can boot from the kcopy_ah floppy and type "sd(0,a)/386bsd" at the prompt which works correctly but is a pain. Can somebody please tell me how to write the boot information to the disk so that I can boot from it directly. Thanks, Graham