From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 14:54:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw1.netvision.net.il (mailgw1.netvision.net.il [194.90.1.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D5537B424 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop (RAS1-p30.tlv.netvision.net.il [62.0.129.30]) by mailgw1.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA11955; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:54:13 +0300 (IDT) Message-ID: <000401c00d55$0f2d9280$1e81003e@laptop> From: "Amir Hardon" To: Cc: Subject: Re: Cannot boot into installation Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:53:48 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.37 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.37 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: Amir Hardon Cc: 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 >> To: Amir Hardon >> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> Date: ??? ????? 23 ?????? 2000 23:33 >> Subject: Re: Cannot boot into installation >> >> >* Amir Hardon [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