From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu May 18 06:53:21 1995
Return-Path: questions-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA08617
          for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 May 1995 06:53:21 -0700
Received: from copper.cmp.com (copper.cmp.com [198.80.26.247])
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA08611
          for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 18 May 1995 06:53:19 -0700
Received: from mailgate.cmp.com ([198.80.26.5]) by copper.cmp.com with SMTP
	(1.37.109.14/16.2) id AA154395083; Thu, 18 May 1995 09:51:24 -0400
Received: by mailgate.cmp.com with Microsoft Mail
	id <2FBB7B56@mailgate.cmp.com>; Thu, 18 May 95 09:52:38 PDT
From: Plyaskin Sergey <splyaski@cmp.com>
To: "' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: RE: AWARD BIOS
Date: Thu, 18 May 95 09:52:00 PDT
Message-Id: <2FBB7B56@mailgate.cmp.com>
Encoding: 22 TEXT
X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0
Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk


> I got a Pentium motherboard with AWARD BIOS and an Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI
> adapter.

> When I try to install FreeBSD on this new system, the standard boot 
message
> appears, I hit <ENTER>, it begins to load, and after 3 seconds the machine 

> reboots.
>
> Does anyone know how to install FreeBSD in such a system, or if there is 
any
> special procedure?
>
Try tapping Del key during boot. You only need to do it once when you boot 
for the first time. After that the problem disappears. That helped in my 
case.

 -Serge
>
> Paulo Wollny Jr.