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From: ap713@yfn.ysu.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [FreeBSD-1.0R]: Missing operating system
Date: 4 Jan 1994 19:17:04 GMT
Organization: Youngstown State/Youngstown Free-Net
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FreeBSD looks like a great operating system, and a friend and
I have tried to install it. The same thing happened on both of our
systems.
System setups: 386/486 systems with Adaptec 1542 and SCSI disks
His: AMI BIOS / 386
Mine: Phoenix BIOS / 486
Before:
His: DOS on 1st partition, Linux on 2nd w/LILO
2nd partition was active, so he would
get LILO every boot.
Mine: DOS on 1st partition Linux on 2nd w/LILO
1st partition had LILO on its bood sector,
and was active, so I got LILO every boot.
We installed FreeBSD on 2nd partitions of both, deleting Linux
partitions. We used FreeBSD defaults after verifying that they
were true, or at least possible :-) No errors during kernel copy,
and we made sure we copied it to the right partition.
After:
Both of us: DOS on 1st partition, BIOS "Missing operating
system" error whenever we try to boot off
2nd partition with FreeBSD.
Both of us: HELP! what do we do?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Chris Mikkelson
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