From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Oct 18 8: 1:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F4CC37B423 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:01:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172CA43EB3 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 7214 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2002 15:01:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 18 Oct 2002 15:01:22 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9IF1Kn5046100; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:01:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021017205104.M1344@hollerith.net> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:01:23 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Alex Hollerith Subject: RE: booting from cd-rom Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 17-Oct-2002 Alex Hollerith wrote: > hi, > > i'm trying to boot and install freebsd 4.7 from cd-rom on my laptop. > the loader stops with "can't work out...". > > is there a way (e.g. by setting loader parameters) to get things > going or should i just give up? Erm, it looks like the BIOS is broken and doesn't support booting via the old floppy-emulation mode properly. You will have to boot off floppies for now. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message