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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:57:16 -0800 (PST)
From: cjm88@home.com
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Missing Operating System message after install completes and first reboot boot attempt
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>Number:         26043
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Missing Operating System message after install completes and first reboot boot attempt
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 23 21:00:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:    Fri Mar 23 21:11:32 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Fri Mar 23 23:40:01 PST 2001
>Originator:     Christope Michel
>Release:        4.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
Can't get there
>Description:
The problem is pretty succinct.  Please see above.  I'd be happy to perform
additional tests if that would help.  I also did a complete hardware
diagnostic plus install of another OS to try to ensure the gear
wasn't acting up.
>How-To-Repeat:
I've repeated this 12 times.  I'm using an Intel Altserver (Dual CPU capable) with
one CPU installed.  Wide SCSI controller is adaptec 7870.  Ethernet card
is Intel etherexpress 100 pro.  I do the install from floppy images and ftp download.
Everything works fine until standard install is complete and it's time to reboot.
I pop the floppy and when the box reboots it ends up with
"Missing operating system message".
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: billf 
State-Changed-When: Fri Mar 23 21:11:32 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
The FreeBSD PR system is for bug reports. 

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http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=26043 

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To: cjm88@home.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/26043: Missing Operating System message after install completes and first reboot boot attempt
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 09:39:03 +0200

 When you created the FreeBSD slice in sysinstall, did you also mark
 it as 'active'?  If not, and if you have not installed the FreeBSD
 boot manager (BootEasy), then your Master Boot Record quite correctly
 refuses to guess which of the available partitions you want to boot from.
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
 -- 
 This sentence contradicts itself - or rather - well, no, actually it doesn't!
 
 On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:57:16PM -0800, cjm88@home.com wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         26043
 > >Category:       i386
 > >Synopsis:       Missing Operating System message after install completes and first reboot boot attempt
 > >Originator:     Christope Michel
 > >Release:        4.2-RELEASE
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > Can't get there
 > >Description:
 > The problem is pretty succinct.  Please see above.  I'd be happy to perform
 > additional tests if that would help.  I also did a complete hardware
 > diagnostic plus install of another OS to try to ensure the gear
 > wasn't acting up.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > I've repeated this 12 times.  I'm using an Intel Altserver (Dual CPU capable) with
 > one CPU installed.  Wide SCSI controller is adaptec 7870.  Ethernet card
 > is Intel etherexpress 100 pro.  I do the install from floppy images and ftp download.
 > Everything works fine until standard install is complete and it's time to reboot.
 > I pop the floppy and when the box reboots it ends up with
 > "Missing operating system message".
>Unformatted:
