From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 26 18:41:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from qef.pps.k12.or.us (qef.pps.k12.or.us [159.191.7.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532451545E for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:41:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gshapiro@pps.k12.or.us) Received: from pps.k12.or.us ([209.102.125.244]) by qef.pps.k12.or.us (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA40F9; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:41:48 -0700 Message-ID: <37EECB49.5AA184B0@pps.k12.or.us> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:41:30 -0700 From: "George Shapiro" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: gshapiro@pps.k12.or.us Subject: installation problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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