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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!decwrl!purdue!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: Can not boot 2.0.5R Date: 12 Jun 1995 21:46:32 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3ricjo$nnj@news.bu.edu> References: <3rgem6$2dc@gryphon.phoenix.net> <3rhe1d$m4v@sven.mn.interact.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sitting, working. Suddenly realized that Greg Rowe wrote: : I had somewhat the same problem, I decided to do a complete reinstall on my first IDE : disk (544meg) (contains only a / partition with /home on my second IDE disk). I selected "Use the whole disk" option in the Partition section and set it for bootable. : I then created a swap and / partition under Label. The install went fine but reboot : failed with "No Operating System". After a number of unsuccessful tries, I finally used the Fixit portion of the last Snap boot disk to write the MBR. I could then bring the system up with no problems. This sound like you already had the boot manager before and (of course) it did not know of your changes of partitions. You needed to reinstall it as the poor boy was looking for the operating system in the wrong sector... -mi -- " -- 'Аблигация' или 'Облигация'? " The following two lines are NOT related to each other! (-: "When in doubt, let your horse do the thinking." "Computer hackers do it all night long..."