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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 20:21:27 PST
From: Ross Davisson <davson@ni.net>
Subject: FreeBSD Boot
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Hi,

I installed FreeBSD completely through the Walnut Creek 
CD-ROM, using the novice installation.  I installed it onto a 
partitioned 850 MB drive that was not the master drive (D: on 
my system).  The drive had (before installation of FreeBSD) a 
300MB DOS partition, with nothing after that.  As I 
understand it, the FreeBSD boot manager should be able to 
support this non-standard boot.

When finished, it told me to restart my computer.  I did.  
When I rebooted, before the "Starting MS-DOS" message, I get 
the message:
NO ROM BASIC
SYSTEM HALTED

It boots fine from floppy disk.  By running fdisk, I found 
that no active partition was set, probably causing the 
errors.  Setting it to the C: drive made DOS work fine, but 
no FreeBSD...

FreeBSD is somewhere on my hard drive--how can I start it or 
get the boot manager to work?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer,
Ross Davisson

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