Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:54:09 +0100 From: deeptech71@gmail.com To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? Message-ID: <45B41941.9000007@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a67e6e4b0701210955j46747639r7ea9bd11b5526451@mail.gmail.com> References: <45B3A409.40005@gmail.com> <a67e6e4b0701210955j46747639r7ea9bd11b5526451@mail.gmail.com>
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Jason Hensler wrote: > 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..
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