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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