Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:41:30 -0700 From: "George Shapiro" <gshapiro@pps.k12.or.us> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: gshapiro@pps.k12.or.us Subject: installation problems Message-ID: <37EECB49.5AA184B0@pps.k12.or.us>
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I am trying to install FreeBSD on an old 486/overdrive machine. The motherboard is manufactured by Micron and the bios does not support booting from CDROM. Here is the problem: Attempting to boot from kern.flp, the little spinner spins for a bit and then an error comes up (and I paraphrase) "/boot/loader" not found. I am then returned to a "boot:" prompt. Pressing return for the default setting gives me "/kernel" not found. The default is something like "0:(a,?)..." I have ascertained that there is nothing wrong with the boot disks (they were made on this machine). Furthermore I was able to install Debian from disk so I assume there is nothing wrong with the floppy I/O. Some incompatibility between between the boot loader and the bios disk identification? any ideas? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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