From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 21 18:20:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE65116A402 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:20:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from omegadraconis@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C88413C45B for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:20:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from omegadraconis@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so785559uge for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:20:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=F5G1WNv4lfZPG8LENm6ifP4bQ68W6e8ETZT+BqashzZV6yA1VNJ+S8a8LjK3/ckuKrEcLxfn3uEs4XdSkzSSMcakPyw6Sz/fsGjvWdwYbPRbfPul+i9bOikh1T5sUMctjTMuHe+yP4QLA8Z0bJK/3wT6fUdRND/K3Tv+18cwYd4= Received: by 10.82.113.6 with SMTP id l6mr4846723buc.1169402143329; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:55:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.151.20 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:55:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:55:43 -0500 From: "Jason Hensler" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <45B3A409.40005@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45B3A409.40005@gmail.com> Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:20:38 -0000 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 the system to access the cd-rom or install freebsd on the hard drive from another machine and swap it to the 486. On 1/21/07, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > 5.1-RELEASE tested, yielded the same result: "Missing operating system". The > installation can boot on a new machine, but can not boot on the 486. Seems > like the source of the error is the capabilitiy of the mainboard. I've given > up. FreeBSD will not work on this noob machine. Next: lots of floppy OSs. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Jason Hensler omegadraconis@gmail.com Aim: jasonhensler