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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.dkrz.de!news.rrz.uni-hamburg.de!news.Hanse.DE!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: no operating system after installing Free BSD Message-ID: <1996Apr4.182601.4718@wavehh.hanse.de> Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg References: <4jtlf1$e64@popcorn.hamburg.pop.de> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 96 18:26:01 GMT Lines: 25 us@pop.de (Ulf Schmidt) writes: >Hi there, >after installing FreeBSD and rebooting, I get the error message >no operating system, and nothing else happens. >I chose 'CHANGE MBR' during installation, since installing the boot >manager of BSD didn't work the first time. The disk geometry that FreeBSD used to write the disklabel is not what the BIOS think aboutr the geometry of the disk. Therefore, the BIOS can't load anything from the disk, therefore, it can't start a boot process. You have to either: - reinstall FreeBSD, this time using DOS to write a disklabel and edit *not replace* the Disklabel - boot (ie. load the kernel) from another device (floppy, another harddisk, network) - you might try whether another controller type solves the problem. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> - BSD User Group Hamburg BSD, Lisp and other programming info http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer