Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:30:42 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: mental@micro.internexus.net (MentaL) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Booting problem with new 2.1 installg Message-ID: <199604061000.TAA03565@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960405093515.20711A-100000@micro.internexus.net> from "MentaL" at Apr 5, 96 09:42:27 am
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MentaL stands accused of saying: > > > My basic problem is that right after installing freeBSD 2.1 I went to > reboot and run for the first time. Right after the 2 ide drives are > detected and the bios info screen pops up it clears the screen and displays: > > NO ROM BASIC > SYSTEM HALTED Urk. Your MBR on the first disk got digested 8( > I'm running on an intel DX4 100 w/32m ram with AMI bios v? (c)1995. It > seems the multiboot program is having problems, somehow, wih the bios, but > I don't know how to remedy the situation at all. Did you install FreeBSD on a second disk, or the first? Are you using Ontrack's "Disk Manager" or something similar? If you installed to the second disk, this is a known bogon. The best solution is to grab the 'bootinst.exe ' and 'boot.bin' files from the tools directory on the CD or the FTP site, boot from a floppy and run 'bootinst'. Let it install to _both_ disks. If you're running a geometry-mangler, all bets are off. Disk Manager is sort-of supported and generally works fine. Others use totally incomprehensibly mutant schemes and aren't. > Help? (: -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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