Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:53:48 +0200 From: "Amir Hardon" <a_hardon@netvision.net.il> To: <kstewart@urx.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Cannot boot into installation Message-ID: <000401c00d55$0f2d9280$1e81003e@laptop>
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Well, in the BIOS boot sequence the floppy is first, I tried replacing the FreeBSD floppy wth Windows98 floppy and the 98 floppy booted. -----Original Message----- From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Amir Hardon <a_hardon@netvision.net.il> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: יום רביעי 23 אוגוסט 2000 23:47 Subject: Re: Cannot boot into installation > > >Amir Hardon wrote: >> >> There is no error message, the computer simply boots into the current >> installed system. >> I'm made the kernerl floppy ut of kern.flp found in the floppies directory >> on the CD, >> I burned the CD out of a iso file that I downloaded in binary mode. > >It sounds like your bios is set to boot from you HD. I tried making >the floppies from the 4.1-iso I downloaded and they booted my system >just fine. > >Kent > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> >> To: Amir Hardon <a_hardon@netvision.net.il> >> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >> Date: ??? ????? 23 ?????? 2000 23:33 >> Subject: Re: Cannot boot into installation >> >> >* Amir Hardon <a_hardon@netvision.net.il> [000823 14:18] wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I downloaded FreeBSD 4.1 iso image, and burned it. >> >> I can't boot from the CD, >> >> so I created boot floppies but the kernel floopy doesn't boot. >> >> What should I do? >> > >> >What kernel boot floppy? Where did you get it from? Are you >> >sure you downloaded it in binary mode? What size is it and what >> >is it's name? >> > >> >-Alfred >> > >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- >Kent Stewart >Richland, WA > >mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com >http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html >FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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