Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 07:51:57 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton <dwalton@psiint.com> To: MentaL <mental@micro.internexus.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting problem with new 2.1 install Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960405074420.62845A-100000@vv.psiint.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960405093515.20711A-100000@micro.internexus.net>
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On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, MentaL wrote: > 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 This usually means that you don't have an active boot partition. Boot DOS from a floppy and use fdisk to set your first drive to active. > 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. I'm guessing that you have DOS on the first drive, and installed FreeBSD on the second, right? If so, the boot manager probably got installed on the second drive, where it doesn't do any good. You'll need to install a boot manager on the first drive. Dave ========================================================================== David Walton Unix Programmer PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 ==========================================================================
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