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From: dziegler@j51.com (David W. Ziegler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Unable to boot FreeBSD partition
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 10:29:40 GMT
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I've recently installed FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE in a multi-OS
environment and can't get FreeBSD to boot.

I have Windows NT installed on the first hard drive, and FreeBSD on
the second. If the second hard drive is active, I get a NO ROM BASIC
error message immediately at boot.  If the NT partition is active, I
can boot NT with the NT boot manager just fine, but if I select the
FreeBSD drive, the system crashes. I can access the FreeBSD drive only
by starting with a FreeBSD boot disk and selecting wd(1,a)/kernel.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
--Dave
dziegler@j51.com

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Dave Ziegler
dziegler@j51.com