Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:39:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: aw625@lafn.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot.flp problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810121338340.25080-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199810112358.AA24246@lafn.org>
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On Sun, 11 Oct 1998 aw625@lafn.org wrote: > Imade an installation boot disk following the instructions found at > www.freebsd.org but am unable to make it work. Can you help? > > My computer is a 486 with a 4.0GB hard drive, 16MB ram running MS-DOS > 6.22. > > The installation boot disk was made using the MS-DOs command > "fdimage boot.flp a:". This was after downloading two files from your > site, boot.flp and fdimage.exe. > > The BIOS on my motherboard doesn't support the 4.0GB hard drive directly > . I am therefore running EZ-BIOS as installed by the EZ-DRIVE software > which came with the Western Digital hard drive. > > If I attempt to boot from the new installation boot disk following the > EZ-BIOS procedure I get MS-DOS instead fo FreeBSD. > > If I attempt to boot using on-board BIOS procedure I get only strange > beeping sounds and don't see the EZ-BIOS message at all. You'll have to bypass that, I guess. Use the boot floppy and at the Boot: prompt type 'wd(0,a)/kernel'. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | 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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