Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:20:40 +0100 From: deeptech71@gmail.com To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? Message-ID: <45BA3868.2020200@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45BA30CF.9070906@gmail.com> References: <45B3A409.40005@gmail.com> <45BA30CF.9070906@gmail.com>
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Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote: > 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. > > If I'm following correctly then you are looking for a version that does > software FPU and doesn't provide "Missing operating system"? > I havent looked at the bootblock sources recently and i don't think it > uses FPU at all (i mean, what would be the point?) > > I think you are probably experiencing the headaches of using LBA on a > drive that doesn't need it (or BIOS that supports it). LBA is meant to > be used on harddrives bigger than 520 or so megabytes. Most new machines > use LBA as default. > > If this is a 486 SX then your BIOS almost certainly doesn't support LBA. > Try to change the HDD mode in the new machines BIOS to "Normal" or > something equivalent, while installing. There are jumpers on the board to set write-through and write-back mode. I can't get into the BIOS, that's one thing. What is LBA? Is it related to partitioning? (btw the HDD is 200MB) Still, wether it's HDD errors or not, why won't the FreeBSD floppies work? (I have even tried them when the HDD wasn't connexted.)
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