Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:55:43 -0500 From: "Jason Hensler" <omegadraconis@gmail.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? Message-ID: <a67e6e4b0701210955j46747639r7ea9bd11b5526451@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45B3A409.40005@gmail.com> References: <45B3A409.40005@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. On 1/21/07, deeptech71@gmail.com <deeptech71@gmail.com> wrote: > 5.1-RELEASE tested, yielded the same result: "Missing operating system". The > installation can boot on a new machine, but can not boot on the 486. Seems > like the source of the error is the capabilitiy of the mainboard. I've given > up. FreeBSD will not work on this noob machine. Next: lots of floppy OSs. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Jason Hensler omegadraconis@gmail.com Aim: jasonhensler
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