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Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486?
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Jason Hensler wrote:
> 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.

I don't have a CD-ROM drive on the 486. That is exactly what I have tried. 
I've put the HDD in another machine, installed FreeBSD, moved the HDD, then 
tried to boot. I've even tried 2 "standard" MBRs. Try a boot manager? Nah..