From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 1:57:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA8FD37B424 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 01:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA53698; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 04:49:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200008300849.EAA53698@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "John Baldwin" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.org" Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 04:52:21 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <200008291825.LAA22987@pike.osd.bsdi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Boot floppies not booting Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:25:44 -0700 (PDT), John Baldwin wrote: >Francisco Reyes wrote: >> 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. I will check, again, but as I stated it DOES boot from a windows 98 boot floppy. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message