From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 17 11:49:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aji.wilshire.net (worm.wilshire.net [64.161.77.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A391637B41B for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emilyd (emilyd.wilshire.net [10.100.123.20]) by aji.wilshire.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g5HIZhol073367; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rileyjmc@pacbell.net) From: "Riley J. McIntire" To: "Tommie \"TJ\" Fitzgerald, Jr." , "Mark Filipak" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: RE: yet another 4.6 install question Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:49:21 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 In-reply-to: <001901c2162c$730ae0a0$0201a8c0@tjsbox> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > partitions on the hd from a boot floppy, and then when I tried to boot > > > from the install cd I got this: > > > > > > 002 : NO ROM BASIC > > > 001 : SYSTEM HALTED > Was th MBR perhaps damaged? > > TF > That message occurs when the boot device is a hard disk and no partition is marked "active". Riley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message