Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 20:21:27 PST From: Ross Davisson <davson@ni.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Boot Message-ID: <Chameleon.960212203409.davson@davson.ni.net>
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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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % % davson@ni.net % % % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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