"missing operating system"

[Aftab Jahan Subedar]

U can safely use the sysinstall to go to fdisk to view the partition table.
There set bootable yes
press 'w' to write
answer if u want boot mgr or not
should help.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Peter Steele <psteele at maxiscale.com> wrote:

> Okay, so I've seen this error many times and its cause has always been
> clear. In this case I'm stumped. I've got a 3U SuperMicro server with 16
> drives hooked up to two 3Ware controllers. The drives are configured into
> two logical drives da0 and da1. I've installed a FreeBSD 8.0 OS on da0 but
> when I boot the box I'm seeing this error. I've swapped the RAID slots in
> the BIOS boot list to make sure the BIOS has the right entry for what I
> think is da0 listed first.  I can boot the system with a USB stick and have
> verified that the OS is installed correctly:
>
> root@:~>
> # mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt
> root@:~>
> # ll /mnt
> total 68
> drwxr-xr-x  22 root  wheel   512 Dec  2 15:58 .
> drwxr-xr-x  24 root  wheel   512 Dec  2 15:44 ..
> -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel   798 Nov 10 06:04 .cshrc
> -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel   182 Dec  2 11:39 .profile
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  6206 Nov 10 06:04 COPYRIGHT
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     9 Dec  1 22:31 VERSION
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  1024 Nov 10 06:02 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel   512 Dec  1 22:31 boot
> dr-xr-xr-x   6 root  wheel  2048 Dec  2 11:22 dev
> drwxr-xr-x  21 root  wheel  2048 Dec  2 11:39 etc
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Dec  1 22:31 home
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  1536 Nov 10 06:03 lib
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Nov 10 06:02 libexec
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Nov 10 06:02 media
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Dec  2 11:39 mnt
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   512 Dec  1 22:31 opt
> dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Nov 10 06:02 proc
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  8192 Nov 10 06:03 rescue
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Dec  1 22:31 root
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  5632 Nov 10 06:03 sbin
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    11 Nov 10 06:04 sys -> usr/src/sys
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel   512 Nov 10 06:36 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel   512 Nov 10 06:36 usr
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Dec  2 11:37 var
>
> What's more puzzling to me is that I have another identical system that was
> purchased a few weeks ago and I have successfully installed the OS on that
> box without seeing this error. I'm thinking there might be some kind of BIOS
> setting that is different between the two boxes but I'm not really sure if
> that explains what's going on.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions what I could do to troubleshoot this
> problem?
>
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