FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Yes, I tried it both ways (installing BootMgr, and installing a standard 
> MBR).

I just thought of one more awful thing which has happened to me
on a number of occasions, way embarrassingly too many times.

You don't happen to have a floppy disk in the floppy drive or possibly
a non-bootable CD in the CD drive do you.   That is where I see 
that message most often.  If you tried to install using the two 
floppies, for example and didn't pull the second one out before
rebooting, it would do that.  The same would be true if you put
one of the other CDs in the set to load some things.

I'm still guessing something to do with the MBRs and boot blocks
and whatever you called the 'a' partition in the slice, etc though.

////jerry

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Pressey" <cpressey at catseye.mine.nu>
> To: "Keith Kelly" <c0d3h4x0r at hotmail.com>
> Cc: <freebsd-bugs at freebsd.org>; <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:38 PM
> Subject: Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800
> > "Keith Kelly" <c0d3h4x0r at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply.  I should have given
> > > more technical details.
> > >
> > > I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install
> > > proceed with fdisk's  geometry value assumptions, and what I always
> > > get is a non-bootable hard drive that gives the "Missing operating
> > > system" error at boot.
> >
> > Hi Keith,
> >
> > Just to be sure - did you elect to install BootMgr (or a regular boot
> > record) on the drive when sysinstall asks?
> >
> > -Chris
> > 
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