From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 11:26:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2652437B422 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA22987; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:25:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200008291825.LAA22987@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Boot floppies not booting In-Reply-To: <200008290637.CAA50454@sanson.reyes.somos.net> from Francisco Reyes at "Aug 29, 2000 02:46:56 am" To: Francisco Reyes Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:25:44 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francisco Reyes wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > 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. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message