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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1307 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6102 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!news.crd.ge.com!sunblossom!knight.vf.ge.com!news.ge.com!combs!steve Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problem installing FreeBSD, tragedy! Can't boot from HDD anymore! Message-ID: <2a5vak$pka@alva.ge.com> From: steve@combs (Stephen F. Combs) Date: 21 Oct 1993 12:29:08 GMT Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions References: <CF6D73.KEJ@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <CF6nJF.42F@latcs1.lat.oz.au> Organization: GE Drive Systems, Salem, VA NNTP-Posting-Host: 3.29.5.200 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 59 M.C. Wong (wongm@ipc5.lat.oz.au) wrote: : In article <CF6D73.KEJ@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) writes: : >Hi, : > Once again I run into some unexpected problem when I tried to install : >FreeBSD-1.0 Epsillon from scratch. Please help! : > : > . : > . : > . [deleted] : Oh no, the wipping out of my primary DOS partition problem during the FreeBSD : installtion actually causes me more damage than expected! : After I get rid of the only weird size FreeBSD partition (24M) on my CP3544 : using fdisk, I recreate one primary DOS parition, set it to active, format it : format c: /s, and copy some files into it, then boot up! : Soon after the POST and BIOS message, I got the following message : : No bootable partition : I thought I might have left the partition unactivated, so I reboot from : floppy, activate it from fdisk, double check everything! And the problem still : resumes. So I thought it might be something wrong when I create the partition, : so I repeat everything, but everytime I boot up, the problem is still there! : I tried installing other O/S (Window NT) and the same problem resume!!! : Can someone see what the problem is ? Now I can no longer boot from my hard : disk, but if I boot from floppy, I still can read/write my primary DOS (c:) : partition! That is very weird, it seems as if there is something wrong in the : hard disk, but if so , when I run checkit, it passes everything without : complaining any error/problem. chkdsk didn't report any bad sectors either! : What happened here ? Can someone help me please ? I should have gone for : an upgrade from 386bsd to FreeBSD if I know I will run into problem like this! : Many thanks in advance and email replies please! : - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M. C Wong) : -- : - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au Try 'fdisk /mbr' to restore the master boot record of your hard disk. Unfortunatly for your problem, I don't run anything BUT FreeBSD on my machine at home (no dos partition, no nuthin'...just FreeBSD). -- ======================================================================= Stephen F. Combs GE Industry Sales & Services My Employer is in NO way GE Drive Systems Responsible or Liable for Network Services Any Opinions expressed by 1501 Roanoke Blvd. Myself. Salem, VA 24153 Internet E-Mail: CombsSF@Salem.GE.COM Novell via Internet: Combs-SF@Salem.GE.COM =======================================================================