Boot Problems and Other Non-installation Problems
This section covers problems related to booting as well as other non–installation-related problems that you might encounter after a successful install.
FreeBSD Says “Missing Operating System” When Trying to Boot
This message usually means that FreeBSD did not correctly detect your hard disk’s geometry when it installed. There are two solutions to this problem:
Create a small DOS partition at the beginning of the drive and install a bare minimum copy of DOS on it (FreeDOS, an MS-DOS workalike, is available for free at http://www.freedos.org). This should cause FreeBSD to detect the right information for partitioning.
Use the pfdisk program found on the DVD packaged with this book (in the tools ...
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