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From: greg@mn.interact.net (Greg Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: Can not boot 2.0.5R
Date: 13 Jun 1995 13:00:29 GMT
Organization: US West-Interact Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Message-ID: <3rk25d$4n8@sven.mn.interact.net>
References: <3ricjo$nnj@news.bu.edu>
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That's what I thought, but yesterday I installed on a new system that had DOS on a
340 meg IDE drive. After the install completed, I get the "No Operating System"
message again. The trusty "fixit" disk came to the rescue again.
I had a couple mails from other folks having the exact same problem wanting to know where to find the old Snap boot disks (anyone still have them on an archive?). Are we
doing something wrong or is the IDE MBR code not getting written correctly ? Thanks.
In article <3ricjo$nnj@news.bu.edu>, mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) writes:
> Sitting, working. Suddenly realized that Greg Rowe wrote:
> : I had somewhat the same problem, I decided to do a complete reinstall on my first IDE
> : disk (544meg) (contains only a / partition with /home on my second IDE disk). I selected "Use the whole disk" option in the Partition section and set it for bootable.
> : I then created a swap and / partition under Label. The install went fine but reboot
> : failed with "No Operating System". After a number of unsuccessful tries, I finally used the Fixit portion of the last Snap boot disk to write the MBR. I could then bring the system up with no problems.
>
> This sound like you already had the boot manager before and (of course) it
> did not know of your changes of partitions. You needed to reinstall it
> as the poor boy was looking for the operating system in the wrong sector...
> -mi
> --
> " -- 'Аблигация' или 'Облигация'? "
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> "When in doubt, let your horse do the thinking."
> "Computer hackers do it all night long..."
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