Subject: RE: Trouble booting from harddrive...
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/15/1998 18:29:18
On 13-Jun-98 Tim Rightnour wrote:
> On 13-Jun-98 Jonathan Belson spoke unto us all:
># Although the installation went just fine, when it got to the 'remove the
># floppy disk and reboot' thing, all I got was a 'Missing operating system'
># message from the BIOS. The only way I can get it to boot is to use
># the installation floppy, set the device to wd0: and tell it to boot from the
># hard drive kernel - a bit of a pain.
>#
>
> Seeing as you dont have a adaptec, my bets are you need to run fdisk /mbr on
> the HD. (the dos version)
Does that initialise the mbr? Anyways, I tried it already in case there was
something strange left on it from its previous life.
C-YA
Jon
http://www.dookie.demon.co.uk