From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 9: 8: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075DB37B40A for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 09:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 7 May 2002 17:07:56 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 1757Ud-0003mu-00; Tue, 07 May 2002 17:07:11 +0100 Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 17:07:11 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Chris Schaller Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: freebsd 4.5-stable and F00F-Bug In-Reply-To: <004a01c1f5db$c966b940$0a00a8c0@artoc.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 May 2002, Chris Schaller wrote: > Hi, > > I just tried to install freebsd 4.5 stable on an old Pentium133 machine. But > the bootloader did not come up. When trying the boot disks of 5DP1 it worked > fine. > How can I install the stable version on my box? Any suggestins? Yeah, I had something similar with an older Pentium (+ MMX). If you want to follow this up, directing details of any error messages to -stable would help. By the way, I booted using the 4.4-RELEASE kern.flp and used a 4.5 mfsroot. jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Generalisation is never appropriate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message