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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4rt1ed$4fl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4riqs0$b3s@tzlink.j51.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)