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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.galt.com!phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu!alex From: alex@pc.cc.cmu.edu (alex wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Install problem with FreeBSD-2.0R on P5/PCI/WD IDE Date: 28 Nov 1994 17:12:38 GMT Organization: Phred Networking Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3bd326$91j@dagny.galt.com> References: <KELLY.94Nov26202321@woody.fsl.noaa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] > I'm then told to reboot without the floppy. I'm presented with a menu: > F1 for dos, F3 for FreeBSD. Pressing F3 just repeats the menu again, > but changes the prompt to F?. F1, big surprise, goes to dos. F2 > crashes the system. F4 repeats the menu like F3, but the prompt > appears as F4 instead of f?. I saw a similar problem installing NetBSD 1.0 on a friends machine. The system would come up with "No operating system" if you selected the NetBSD partition from the OS/BS menu. The fix was to get pfdisk for DOS and rewrite the partition table so that it had the same starting blocks and lengths for each partitions (basically forcing it to rewrite the partition table). It looks like using MS-DOS 5 fdisk had written invalid c/h/s values for the partitions (or it could have been the fdisk that comes with NetBSD) but had written valid sector number values (or c/h/s values that computed to the same thing). alex