Cant locate system disk
Charles Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Wed May 25 15:29:36 PDT 2005
On May 25, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Karan Gupta wrote:
> Im trying to install fBSD 5.4 onto a Maxtor N256 10GB hdd. I have
> the hdd hooked up as a primary master, the cdrom as secondary
> master. The cdrom is the 1st boot device & the hdd the second. When
> I put in the fBSD firstdisk.iso into the CD, it finds the
> hdd...installs the boot manager, partitions it & installs to the
> point where it says "Congratulations". It asks me to enter some
> config info. Everything looks good so far.
>
> When I remove the cdrom and boot from the hdd i get " system disk
> boot failure. Insert system drive"
>
> thoughts?
Don't use "dangerously dedicated mode" if you are. Try using an MS-
DOS floppy or CD to create a small DOS partition, and double-check
whether you can boot to that. Then try installing FreeBSD in the
remaining space, and see whether that works better. Tweaking BIOS
settings, including LBA mode and/or downgrading from UDMA to PIO may
also help.
--
-Chuck
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