From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 06:54:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA08016 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 06:54:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from colds.ruca.ua.ac.be (colds.ruca.ua.ac.be [143.129.201.210]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA07995 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 06:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by colds.ruca.ua.ac.be (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA11264; Fri, 2 Aug 96 09:52:59 -0400 Received: from flexus with uucp; Fri, 2 Aug 96 15:51:32 Received: by flexus (NX5.67d/NX3.0M.flexus.1994-03-17) id AA22708; Fri, 2 Aug 96 15:51:32 +0200 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 96 15:51:32 +0200 From: Raf Schietekat Message-Id: <9608021351.AA22708@flexus> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: After installing FreeBSD 2.1, my computer won't boot Reply-To: flexus!RfSchtkt@colds.ruca.ua.ac.be Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've got the following (E)IDE disks: 800 MB, ATAPI CD-ROM on the first controller, 1 GB, 1.6 GB on the second controller. I installed FreeBSD on the (newly acquired) last disk, using the floppy generated for ATAPI from VIEW.EXE. I requested a booteasy boot manager. When I rebooted, the system said NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HALTED I can still boot all kinds of things from floppy, though. How does a system start up? First try the floppy, then some things on hard disks that were detected (what exactly), then some internal ROM? Very naively, I would suspect that the MBR has been damaged, so that the system tries that internal ROM and gives an error message for that? I have Windows 3.11 and Windows NT on the first two disks. How can I restore the MBR that previously invoked NTLDR, the ``booteasy'' of Windows NT, if that is a correct analysis? I've read the ``Installing and Running FreeBSD'' manual, but didn't find the answer there. Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (NeXTmail), Flanders, Belgium If I don't answer: my mail relay can't handle !, % or .uucp, I think *** The year 2000 will be the last year of the 20th century. ***