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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD partition
Date: 9 Jul 1996 07:23:57 GMT
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dziegler@j51.com (David W. Ziegler) wrote:

> 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.

The BIOS doesn't boot from the second drive.  You need a so-called
boot manager on the first drive that could handle this situation.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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