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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: (Q) How to fix the bootstrap? Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 09:57:20 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 21 Message-ID: <31B07670.6586@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4mq21s$3oq@news.clinet.fi> <3190ee0b.82618278@news.teir.com> <4n23oc$6ro@news.clinet.fi> <4nun07$aj@anorak.coverform.lan> <4ofjn4$d9@news.clinet.fi> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) Mika wrote: > > Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > : : As I mentioned myh system doesnt boot at all from IDE drive. > : : When trying to boot without a 3.5" boot disk the error > : : message is NO BASIC ROM, SYSTEM HALTED. > > Tried and no help. Anyway what I will do is simply attach the disk > to a MickeyDos machine (when I get one:) and copy everything I need > to anoither IDE drive, after what I will add the 500meg IDE with > destoryed bootstrap to one of my FreeBSD machines. > Sounds as if you don't have an active (bootable) partition declared. To boot into DOS, you either need a boot manager installed or you need to use FDISK to set the DOS partition active. Otherwise DOS, in accordance with its brilliant (?) design, will assume it can't use it and needs to go to the original IBM cassette BASIC in on-board ROM. Yecch! Ken