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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
From: nigel@dscheme.demon.co.uk (Nigel Johnston)
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!merlin!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!dscheme.demon.co.uk!nigel
Subject: No ROM Basic
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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 22:08:40 +0000
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A friend of mine has been trying to get FreeBSD (1.0.2) working on his
486sx25 but keeps getting the message 'NO ROM BASIC' (I think, the message
was pretty garbled) when he tries to boot from the first floppy. What he 
wants to know is - Is it worth trying to see if the latest version
(1.1-GAMMA?) will boot?

For what its worth the motherboard of his system says (on booting)
"US491 80486/33/50 board, IVN 1.2 Nov 19 1993" and I believe that its using
an AMI bios from 1992.

Thanks for any help.

-- 
Nigel Johnston