Date: Fri, 2 Aug 96 15:51:32 +0200 From: Raf Schietekat <flexus!rfschtkt@colds.ruca.ua.ac.be> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: After installing FreeBSD 2.1, my computer won't boot Message-ID: <9608021351.AA22708@flexus>
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I've got the following (E)IDE disks: 800 MB, ATAPI CD-ROM on the first controller, 1 GB, 1.6 GB on the second controller. I installed FreeBSD on the (newly acquired) last disk, using the floppy generated for ATAPI from VIEW.EXE. I requested a booteasy boot manager. When I rebooted, the system said NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HALTED I can still boot all kinds of things from floppy, though. How does a system start up? First try the floppy, then some things on hard disks that were detected (what exactly), then some internal ROM? Very naively, I would suspect that the MBR has been damaged, so that the system tries that internal ROM and gives an error message for that? I have Windows 3.11 and Windows NT on the first two disks. How can I restore the MBR that previously invoked NTLDR, the ``booteasy'' of Windows NT, if that is a correct analysis? I've read the ``Installing and Running FreeBSD'' manual, but didn't find the answer there. Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (NeXTmail), Flanders, Belgium If I don't answer: my mail relay can't handle !, % or .uucp, I think *** The year 2000 will be the last year of the 20th century. ***
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