On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Brian D. Moffet wrote:
> At 03:59 PM 1/22/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >FreeBSD loader does not start up, nor does the kernel (obviously). The
> >error message I get back is literally translated as "No O.S."
>
> on the other versions of Intel Unix I have used dd the master boot block
> out...
>
> If you want to get really daring, look at the first sector of the BIOS and see
> if it starts with a "jump" command, e9 or eb or something like that. :-)
>
> If any of this is incorrect for FreeBSD, I hope someone lets me know, and lets
> me know how it is incorrect.
>
Hi Brian,
Through some pointing from others, and trial and error on my part, I
discovered that my BIOS requires that my first bootable partition be a
bootable DOS partition. What is most strange is that for some reason it is
required to be at least 20Megs in size. I only discovered this after
trying 2,5,10,15 megabyte partitions.
Anyway, it works now as a dual boot machine. Even though I had to give up
20Megs (on an 800MB HD), at least it works... and I discovered I can use
that space as FreeBSD swap space so it's not completely wasted.
I should end by saying, "Thanks IBM for all the proprietary stuff you
force on people" (can you sense the sarcasm!?) ;-)
Marwan
ps. The machine was an IBM Thinkpad 365XD.
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