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Am Mittwoch, den 30.12.2009, 01:27 -0800 schrieb Roger Agraviador:
> I found an old pc that I just reformatted the HDD using G parted, now
> that I
> try to boot from a Free BSD CD (7.2 release) the Intel chip gives me
> an
> error message that the system boot failed and asks me to insert a
> system
> disk which I do not have, how do I go about that because I virtually
> cannot
> install any operating system.
Did you enable booting from CD in your BIOS?

>=20
> Do I have to install a boot loader like GRUB2?=20
No.

> If so How do I go about
> that?
> Since I have found no iso image of GRUB2 to burn into a live cd.
Greetings

Uli.

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