[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jason Hensler wrote:
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
Ummm, nobody has mentioned it, but a more modren machine vs. a really
old bios -
the No operating system message is a classic sign of a geometry
mismatch - the
new BIOS is probably mapping the drive differently (since it undoubtedly
can handle
multi-gig drives vs 500M for the old BIOS.)
I have
David King wrote:
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
Can't boot FreeBSD from a floppy. That is, it boots, but gives an error.
