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.
I don't have a CD-ROM drive on the 486. That is exactly what I have
tried. I've put the HDD in another machine, installed FreeBSD,
moved the HDD, then tried to boot. I've even tried 2 "standard"
MBRs. Try a boot manager? Nah..
Can you see the hard drive if you boot from a floppy?
Is the hard drive in the boot path in the BIOS? Are you using a 40-
pin cable for an EIDE drive? It sounds like you can't see the drive
at all
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