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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!willis.cis.uab.edu!news.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!not-for-mail From: mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu (Matthew N. Dodd) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0.5R: no way to disklabel hd :-( Date: 3 Jul 1995 06:30:21 -0500 Organization: Louisiana State University Lines: 40 Message-ID: <3t8kcd$up7@tiger2.ocs.lsu.edu> References: <DB26F2.8n@luva.lb.bawue.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: tiger2-t.ocs.lsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael Giegerich (migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de) wrote: : When I tried to reboot, the system returned the error `Missing : operating system'. Yippie! I'm not going crazy. : So I booted from another FBSD-hd and used this drive to boot : from the newly installed system (using hd(1,a)/kernel). This : worked (checked the installation: all was there). : Then I spent the whole day trying to disklabel the disk in order : to make it boot by itself - alas, without any luck :-((( I can boot of the install floppy and select hd(0,a)/kernel and it boots. Somehow its not writing the mbr code correctly. Someone told me that I had a geometry problem. So I booted -v and checked the probed geometry. When I used that, the install admonished me to use a correct geometry and suggested that I didn't know what the correct one was. Grrr... Anyhow, it won't boot off of a geometry it likes and it doesn't like any geometry that I set... : Did anybody encounter this type of error? With a solution to : it perhaps? Well, I should know something sometime today, or tomorrow, or the next day. I have to get this working and am likely to come up with a fix or solution. I got this using the 2.0.5-SNAP, bt946 Quantum Grand Prix 2.1 gig drives, P90/64meg/Super Micro MB. Anybody else? (thanks to the whole crowd on IRC for the pointers.) -- []-----------------------------------------------------------------------[] | Matthew N. Dodd Department of Computer Science | | mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu Louisiana State University | []-----------------------------------------------------------------------[]