It seems to be that the motherboard probably does not support booting from cd as was common with older systems. A side note, I got the same error on a p4 board yesterday because there was not boot device (bad mbr). I would try a boot floppy to get the system to access the cd-rom or install freebsd on the hard drive from another machine and swap it to the 486.
On 1/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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