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Date:      Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:28:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Paul Nolan <nolanp@indigo.ie>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960218212659.15513A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199602172114.VAA26698@aoife.indigo.ie>

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On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, Paul Nolan wrote:

> Yet When I boot the PC it goes straight into windows 95. on the active c: Drive.
> before I activated the C: drive partition, I could still not boot to FreeBSD
> and was getting the error
> " NoROM BASIC"
> "SYSTEM HALTED"
> Any Help would be appreciated

Use DOS FDISK to flag your Windows 95 partition as "active."  

The active flag gets set when you add the partition, and it messes up if
it's on a second disk. 

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




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