At 03:59 PM 1/22/00 -0500, you wrote:
>FreeBSD loader does not start up, nor does the kernel (obviously). The
>error message I get back is literally translated as "No O.S."
"No O.S " means that the master boot block has not been written. I have no
idea
why your version of FreeBSD didn't write one, or if it wrote a corrupted one.
The message comes from the BIOS loading code in the machine.
Several possibilities exist, install a DOS partition which will boot, and
then remove
it and install your FreeBSD. That should get you your master boot block.
I installed
on a 13 Gig EIDE, with the "FreeBSD is the only OS ever on this machine"
option
(my manuals are elsewhere), and it installed and booted just fine, with no
previous
OS installed. There is probably a program or option to do this. Usually
fdisk
on the other versions of Intel Unix I have used dd the master boot block
out...
If you want to get really daring, look at the first sector of the BIOS and see
if it starts with a "jump" command, e9 or eb or something like that. :-)
If any of this is incorrect for FreeBSD, I hope someone lets me know, and lets
me know how it is incorrect.
Good luck
Brian
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