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Without more description of what you did, there is little
anyone can do to help you.

The "No bootable partition" message seems to indicate that
you did a partial install.  It indicates that there is either
no partition selected as bootable or there is no Master Boot
Record (MBR) on the disk.

What parts of the disk did you select to install FreeBSD onto?
If you did not select the entire disk, maybe it is recoverable.

Do you have a bootable DOS floppy disk?