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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!qualcomm.com!qualcomm.com!not-for-mail From: bri@qualcomm.com (Brian Ellis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD only boot from floppy for me? Date: 16 Feb 1994 13:08:04 -0700 Organization: QUALCOMM, Incorporated; San Diego, CA, USA Lines: 33 Message-ID: <2jtuf4$1gv@qualcomm.com> References: <1994Feb16.102445.5901@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: redcloud.qualcomm.com In article <1994Feb16.102445.5901@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl>, Eloy Domingos <eloy@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl> wrote: >I saw with fdisk that this 4th partition was made active by the installation. >However, since I always booted from the IDE drive, there was no MBR present >at all on the SCSI disk. I think FreeBSD also didn't install one because >I didn't use the whole disk for it. So I did a fdisk/mbr from DOS which >installed the standard MBR on the SCSI drive. I made sure the FreeBSD >partition was still active, and tried to boot from the SCSI drive (IDE >drive still disabled). > >However, the system prints "Mission operating system" (or something like that) >and then halts. It seems like the MBR tries to boot from the FreeBSD >partition but it doesn't recognize a valid operating system there, >understandable because DOS won't recognize FreeBSD. > >Do I need a special MBR present to be able to boot? If so, how do I install >it? You're on the right track. The Master Boot Record installed by DOS's fdisk will only boot DOS. What you really need is to install a boot manager such as OS-BS. OS-BS is really just a Master Boot Record that can boot multiple systems. -brian |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Broad-mindedness, n.: | | The result of flattening high-mindedness out. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Brian Ellis (bri@qualcomm.com) __ ___ | | (303)546-1521 (internal x1521)| | _ | _ _ .__ .__ | .__ _ | |_______________________________|_\| (_| (_| | (_ (_) ||| |||_______|_ | | (_.|