Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 04:52:21 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.org" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Boot floppies not booting Message-ID: <200008300849.EAA53698@sanson.reyes.somos.net> In-Reply-To: <200008291825.LAA22987@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:25:44 -0700 (PDT), John Baldwin wrote: >Francisco Reyes wrote: >> I just bought a computer without CDrom. I made the kernel and >> mfsroot floppies on another machine. When I put the kernel >> floopy on the new computer it gives a "disk boot failure. Insert >> system disk and press enter". > >The BIOS isn't trying to boot from the floppies. Go into the BIOS >setup and make sure that the floppy drive is enabled as a boot device. I will check, again, but as I stated it DOES boot from a windows 98 boot floppy. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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