Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:25:44 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot floppies not booting Message-ID: <200008291825.LAA22987@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <200008290637.CAA50454@sanson.reyes.somos.net> from Francisco Reyes at "Aug 29, 2000 02:46:56 am"
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Francisco Reyes wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I just bought a computer without CDrom. I made the kernel and > mfsroot floppies on another machine. When I put the kernel > floopy on the new computer it gives a "disk boot failure. Insert > system disk and press enter". The BIOS isn't trying to boot from the floppies. Go into the BIOS setup and make sure that the floppy drive is enabled as a boot device. -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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