From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 6 01:35:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA17678 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 01:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA17673 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 01:35:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA03565; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:30:43 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604061000.TAA03565@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Booting problem with new 2.1 installg To: mental@micro.internexus.net (MentaL) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:30:42 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "MentaL" at Apr 5, 96 09:42:27 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[