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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Annelise Anderson <ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Installation Problem
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On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Annelise Anderson wrote:

> 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.

You need to use FDISK to reset the active partition back to the Partition 
Manager slice.

Classic problem with the active partition getting reset back to FreeBSD's 
(or nothing), and the system halting.

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