From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 14: 6:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2186B153F6 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15871; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:05:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:05:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader on an ancient PC In-Reply-To: <375AD4D2.618DA7F@cybercable.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > I'trying to reuse an ancient 386sx for a router Will this thing be alive in 6 months? > I've loaded FreeBSD on two disks from another machine (using > dump/restore on the working PC), so my 386sx just has to boot - normally > > I've kep a small DOS partition at the begining of the 1st disk and I've > got BootEasy > > when I type F2 at booteasy's prompt, I get an error message (from the > BIOS, because of the partition type ?) > Non-system disk > type any key to reboot Make sure you set up the partition in compatibility mode. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message