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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help Need to Fix boot sector Date: 3 May 1996 16:41:37 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4mdd01$hqu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31814F17.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> <31821B29.2781E494@mindspring.com> <31835BC6.167EB0E7@mindspring.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> writes: >> I also tried fdisk -u sd0, to force a bootinit. That did not work >> either. I hope someone out there has a thought on how I can fix >> the boot for sd0 other than a re-install. I tried disklabel -B sd0 >also and disklabel -B -b boot1 -s boot2 [sd0|/dev/rds0c]. No luck >still get No Operating System Found with OSBS or BTEASY from disk 0. >> >Followup: >I found that even re-installing FBSD2.1R with NT NTFS installed on the >first partition (0) would not make FBSD 2.1R boot from disk 0 without a >floppy. You're suffering from a geometry mismatch problem. Disklabel is something completely different (it only affects the BSD bootstrap and label, which is normally quite different from the master boot). You need to install FreeBSD with exactly the same geometry as your BIOS thinks of the disk. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)