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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 28 May 1996, Ken Marsh wrote:

> I just installed BSD on hd1. hd0 is all DOS. When I went to boot, I got
> this:
> 
> NO ROM BASIC
> 
> SYSTEM HALTED

Oops.  Use DOS FDISK and reset the 'active' partition.

This is the infamous "missing operating system message" built for 
compatibility.  :-/

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major