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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: MentaL <mental@micro.internexus.net>
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Subject: Re: Booting problem with new 2.1 install
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On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, MentaL wrote:

> 
> My basic problem is that right after installing freeBSD 2.1 I went to 
> reboot and run for the first time. Right after the 2 ide drives are 
> detected and the bios info screen pops up it clears the screen and displays:
> 
> NO ROM BASIC
> SYSTEM HALTED

Use a boot floppy and DOS FDISK and mark your first partition as 'active'.  
This is AMI's version of the infamous "Missing Operating System" message.

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