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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk!paul From: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: missing operating system ????? Message-ID: <1994Jun28.142502.14197@cm.cf.ac.uk> Keywords: boot, SCSI, OS-BS booteasy Sender: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Organization: ELSYM, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK. References: <2uoab7$idn@news.service.uci.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 14:25:00 +0000 Lines: 27 In article <2uoab7$idn@news.service.uci.edu>, bob prohaska <bob@beamlab.ps.uci.edu> wrote: >Hi all, > >What would cause my pc to report "missing operating system" on the >initial boot from the HD after a seemingly successful install of FreeBSD? Usually a mismatch between the disk parameters for the BIOS and FreeBSD. What are the no cyls,heads,sectors reported from FreeBSD when it boots and the BIOS? Also, does your BIOS have a LBA option and is it set or not. >My object is to set up a dual disk system with FreeBSD on one disk and Windows >NT on a second with some sort of boot selector on drive ID 0. If I'm going >about it the wrong way please let me know! Good luck, I tried for 3 days to get NT to co-exist with FreeBSD on the same > >thanks for reading! > >bob disk an eventually gave up. It might work on different disks though. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK