From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 07:56:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA19295 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 07:56:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from psiint.com (vv.psiint.com [204.189.53.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA19286 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 07:56:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by psiint.com (8.6.12/4.03) id HAA45314; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 07:55:56 -0800 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 07:55:56 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton To: Ross Davisson cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Ross Davisson wrote: > I installed FreeBSD completely through the Walnut Creek > CD-ROM, using the novice installation. I installed it onto a > partitioned 850 MB drive that was not the master drive (D: on > my system). The drive had (before installation of FreeBSD) a > 300MB DOS partition, with nothing after that. As I > understand it, the FreeBSD boot manager should be able to > support this non-standard boot. > > When finished, it told me to restart my computer. I did. > When I rebooted, before the "Starting MS-DOS" message, I get > the message: > NO ROM BASIC > SYSTEM HALTED > > It boots fine from floppy disk. By running fdisk, I found > that no active partition was set, probably causing the > errors. Setting it to the C: drive made DOS work fine, but > no FreeBSD... I ran into this, too. I think what happened is that the install program put the boot manager onto the drive where you installed FreeBSD, instead of the first drive where it should be. What you'll need to do is manually install one of the boot managers from the CD (I prefer the beta osbs 2.0, personally) onto your C: drive. That done, everything should work fine. Dave ========================================================================== David Walton Programmer PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 ==========================================================================