Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:01:23 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alex Hollerith <alex@hollerith.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: RE: booting from cd-rom Message-ID: <XFMail.20021018110123.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021017205104.M1344@hollerith.net>
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On 17-Oct-2002 Alex Hollerith wrote: > hi, > > i'm trying to boot and install freebsd 4.7 from cd-rom on my laptop. > the loader stops with "can't work out...". > > is there a way (e.g. by setting loader parameters) to get things > going or should i just give up? Erm, it looks like the BIOS is broken and doesn't support booting via the old floppy-emulation mode properly. You will have to boot off floppies for now. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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