From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 4 09:32:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28207 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 09:32:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (iglou4.iglou.com [192.107.41.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28126 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 09:32:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from [204.255.227.130] (helo=gateway.cre8tivegroup.com) by iglou.com with esmtp (8.9.1/8.9.1) id 0zlz4r-0004Y6-00; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:31:37 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19981204170849.15612.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 12:31:28 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Gardella To: Aaron Nadeau Subject: RE: why won't this thing work? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04-Dec-98 Aaron Nadeau wrote: > hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD on two OLD 386 computers. Both > of them are using Pheonix BIOS 1.10. I got them for free from my > school because I can't sepn money on a new unix box. If you could > help me get these things running I would really appricate it. > > The problem I am running into is this: > > I boot from the floppy and it all goes well, but before the kernel > options menu comes up it reboots it self and goes through it all > agian. Please help. This may sound silly, but make sure that the floppy is set up correctly in BIOS. Just this morning, I had an old 486 reboot constantly at that point as well becuase the person who gave me the computer had the 3.5 floppy set up as a 5.25 1.2 Meg floppy. Once I realized that, it worked just fine... --- Patrick S. Gardella Director of Web Development The Creative Group 1-800-804-0783 ext 29 606-858-8029 (fax) http://www.cre8tivegroup.com PGP Key ID 0xEE2D47A9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message