From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 18:14:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CBA16A4CF for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:14:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.host4u.net (hermes.host4u.net [209.150.128.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 067FD43D1F for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:14:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bbowman@vistacraft.com) Received: from vistacraft.com (pcp08560476pcs.alxndr01.va.comcast.net [68.86.24.54]) by hermes.host4u.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i1C2ECJ29612 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:14:12 -0600 Message-ID: <402C33B7.4000905@vistacraft.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:17:27 -0500 From: Brent Bowman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20040118 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:14:13 -0000 Hello all, I've got a question about the install of the current FreeBSD. I am using the floppy install, and I dd (I'm a linux user) both the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp onto floppies, then I follow the instructions on this site: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-start.html I get to the end of step "2.3.1.1 Booting for the i386™" where it tells to boot the kernel and no matter what I do, it just reboots the computer! Therefore it looses whatever it tried to put in memory and starts over again. How can I get it to go to the kernel setup? My Hardware: IBM PS/Valuepoint 486 33MHz 8 MB RAM 2 x 212MB HD 3-COM network card no CDROM Thanks, Any help would be appreciated Brent