From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 26 17:17:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D16216A407 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:17:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CF013C483 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:17:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so709580uge for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:17:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DBCAlTBhm+1XQHz5TRQwuLD89dqChtsqA+zuT+ydFvoUXg1YH8g1+P2SSUQ+sjBBKomXoSd/XvPoRuqKt3c/ATZDQjaXec3D78qfE2N/w7B49bxrBa2XzwGHPhNmPA4nRuHKZnpwPg7VFuPndTgpHoRzkp+WKYjE9T+lGAS/FKQ= Received: by 10.67.96.14 with SMTP id y14mr4601009ugl.1169831863914; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:17:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.123.111? ( [81.182.8.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e1sm4648412ugf.2007.01.26.09.17.42; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:17:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45BA3868.2020200@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:20:40 +0100 From: deeptech71@gmail.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <45B3A409.40005@gmail.com> <45BA30CF.9070906@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45BA30CF.9070906@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:17:45 -0000 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.)