From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 18 21:30:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA01673 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:30:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01645 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:30:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA15548; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:28:10 -0800 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:28:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Paul Nolan cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199602172114.VAA26698@aoife.indigo.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, Paul Nolan wrote: > Yet When I boot the PC it goes straight into windows 95. on the active c: Drive. > before I activated the C: drive partition, I could still not boot to FreeBSD > and was getting the error > " NoROM BASIC" > "SYSTEM HALTED" > Any Help would be appreciated Use DOS FDISK to flag your Windows 95 partition as "active." The active flag gets set when you add the partition, and it messes up if it's on a second disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major