From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 29 01:10:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA08704 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 01:10:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from hoover.stanford.edu (hoover.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA08698 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 01:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU by HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #13307) id <01HZD0H2TOPS008RES@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 01:11:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 01:11:24 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson Subject: Installation Problem To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <01HZD0H2U80I008RES@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" X-VMS-Cc: ANDRSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I installed (or I think I did) FreeBSD 2.1 from the cdrom, on a second SCSI hard drive. OS2's boot manager (along with DOS/WIN 3.1) was on the first SCSI hd. In any case the installation was a breeze--very clear info on what to do next etc. I chose the option not to make any changes to the MBR, and not to install boot manager. Now when I attempt to boot (after the options to use setup, to use the SCSI utility, and to do something with the GSI 11 floppy controller), the next message (in big letters) is NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED. It boots fine from a floppy, but of course the boot manager doesn't come up. Would anyone know what "no rom basic" means and how I can fix this? Thanks very much-- Annelise