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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!demos!news.spb.su!news.eunet.fi!news.csc.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!cloud9.l16.fi!tuupola From: tuupola@cloud9.l16.fi (Mika.J.H.Tuupola) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: (Q) How to fix the bootstrap? Date: 8 May 1996 11:54:36 GMT Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4mq21s$3oq@news.clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.l16.fi X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Something a bit unexpected happened when I installed FreeBSD on my scsi drive. In the install menu I chose to install the 'BootEasy' bootmanager. Everything went fine until I rebooted the machine. the result : NO BASIC ROM, SYSTEM HALTED. So what I now have figured out is that the bootmanager lies in scsi drive but the bootstrap was written to the IDE drive (which is the first drive) and the bootstrap cannot locate the code for bootmanager. I am able to boot FreeBSD using a boot floppy and giving the parameter hd(1,a)/kernel .... of course. What I would like to know now is how to make a new bootstrap or how to make the IDE drive bootable *without* destroyng the data on the disk. FYI. The IDE drive is used for dos and win95 (yuck). FYI2. If you wanted to know. the disk 0 is 540meg IDE and disk 1 is 1.04gig SCSI... //MiT