Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:15:13 -0800 From: David King <dking@ketralnis.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? Message-ID: <01997974-108B-434C-8498-0EBCC0529900@ketralnis.com> In-Reply-To: <45B41941.9000007@gmail.com> References: <45B3A409.40005@gmail.com> <a67e6e4b0701210955j46747639r7ea9bd11b5526451@mail.gmail.com> <45B41941.9000007@gmail.com>
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>> It seems to be that the motherboard probably does not support booting >> from cd as was common with older systems. A side note, I got the same >> error on a p4 board yesterday because there was not boot device (bad >> mbr). I would try a boot floppy to get the system to access the cd- >> rom >> or install freebsd on the hard drive from another machine and swap it >> to the 486. > I don't have a CD-ROM drive on the 486. That is exactly what I have > tried. I've put the HDD in another machine, installed FreeBSD, > moved the HDD, then tried to boot. I've even tried 2 "standard" > MBRs. Try a boot manager? Nah.. Can you see the hard drive if you boot from a floppy? Is the hard drive in the boot path in the BIOS? Are you using a 40- pin cable for an EIDE drive? It sounds like you can't see the drive at all
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