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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:25:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Boot floppies not booting
Message-ID:  <200008291825.LAA22987@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008290637.CAA50454@sanson.reyes.somos.net> from Francisco Reyes at "Aug 29, 2000 02:46:56 am"

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Francisco Reyes wrote:
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> I just bought a computer without CDrom. I made the kernel and
> mfsroot floppies on another machine. When I put the kernel
> floopy on the new computer it gives a "disk boot failure. Insert
> system disk and press enter".

The BIOS isn't trying to boot from the floppies.  Go into the BIOS
setup and make sure that the floppy drive is enabled as a boot device.

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