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When I boot FreeBSD for the first time after install I get “Missing Operating System”. What is happening?

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When I boot FreeBSD for the first time after install I get “Missing Operating System”. What is happening?

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This is classically a case of FreeBSD and DOS or some other OS conflicting over their ideas of disk geometry. You will have to reinstall FreeBSD, but obeying the instructions given above will almost always get you going.